Moving domains

spinal007

Hi all,

REGARDING: www.123cleaners.com
(123cleaners.com 301 redirects to www.london-dry-cleaners.com)

Google Adwords is now going to enforce a more strict policy on its ads so I will no longer be able to display 123cleaners.com for ads that redirect visitors to www.london-dry-cleaners.com.

Changing the display URL of all ads to london-dry-cleaners.com is not an option, so I MUST reverse the setup so that
www.london-dry-cleaners.com 301 redirects to www.123cleaners.com

So here's my question:
Has anyone ever done this in a large scale?
I know that, technically, if I use 301 redirects, all the information about www.london-dry-cleaners.com should be 'transferred' to www.123cleaners.com, but I don't know what kind of problems I might run into.

www.london-dry-cleaners.com has very high rankings on Google for all related phrases. This *should* just be passed on to www.123cleaners.com, but does anyone know for sure?

Thanks in advance!

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spinal007

Hi,


I'm posting back because this information might help others with the same problem.

I made the switch 6 days ago (April 10th) and these are my findings.
(By "switch" I mean that every page from domain1 was 301 redirected to domain2)

- Google has indexed 43 pages on the new domain.
- Google still holds pages from both domains (not all pages have been moved yet)
- Every page indexed under the new domain is no longer indexed under the old domain.

- 123cleaners.com now appears in the search results where london-dry- cleaners.com used to be. SEE: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=london+dry+cleaners&

- Site links that were associated with london-dry-cleaners.com have not yet been generated for 123cleaners.com, but I'm this will happen eventually. That is because site links are largely based on visitor behavior and Google will gather enough data soon enough.

So far so good. Google seems to be transferring all the information regarding the old domain to the new domain and rankings have not been affected.

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