Comments on: The Ups and Downs of a Domain Move http://marketingtechblog.com/2008/07/13/domain-change-advantage-disadvantage-seo-advertising/ new media strategies and other marketing gems Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:47:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Stephen James http://marketingtechblog.com/2008/07/13/domain-change-advantage-disadvantage-seo-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-202527 Stephen James Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:02:18 +0000 http://www.marketingtechblog.com/?p=2406#comment-202527 Unlike most of our friends above, I have divided my content into another domain, LlamaAndLamb.com, with the purpose of separating my personal life from my professional life (as much as one can on the web). All of my sites used to be at <a href="http://www.smjdesign.com" rel="nofollow">smjdesign.com</a> except "the poetry knook" I also took my (thousands of) photos site and added them to LlamAndLamb. Both these sites together caused my PageRank to go from 4 to 3 at <a href="http://www.smjdesign.com" rel="nofollow">smjdesign.com</a> immediately. I believe this is because the number of the pages on the site was cut in half--which leads me to wonder. Is it better to have one large site for all your sites/pages? Unlike most of our friends above, I have divided my content into another domain, LlamaAndLamb.com, with the purpose of separating my personal life from my professional life (as much as one can on the web). All of my sites used to be at smjdesign.com except “the poetry knook” I also took my (thousands of) photos site and added them to LlamAndLamb. Both these sites together caused my PageRank to go from 4 to 3 at smjdesign.com immediately. I believe this is because the number of the pages on the site was cut in half–which leads me to wonder. Is it better to have one large site for all your sites/pages? ]]> By: Patric Welch http://marketingtechblog.com/2008/07/13/domain-change-advantage-disadvantage-seo-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-174827 Patric Welch Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:34:26 +0000 http://www.marketingtechblog.com/?p=2406#comment-174827 Oh I feel your pain Doug. My Alexa ranking took a huge hit when I switched to noobie.com. It almost feels like starting over although it is climbing back up little by little. I still find little things here and there that I have to tweak. Just part of the process I guess. I still stand by my reasoning of do it now while it's still early. Imagine making the switch 10 years from now. Oh I feel your pain Doug. My Alexa ranking took a huge hit when I switched to noobie.com. It almost feels like starting over although it is climbing back up little by little.

I still find little things here and there that I have to tweak. Just part of the process I guess.

I still stand by my reasoning of do it now while it’s still early. Imagine making the switch 10 years from now.

]]> By: Barry Zweibel, GottaGettaBlog! http://marketingtechblog.com/2008/07/13/domain-change-advantage-disadvantage-seo-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-174467 Barry Zweibel, GottaGettaBlog! Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:22:03 +0000 http://www.marketingtechblog.com/?p=2406#comment-174467 Hi Doug ~ I migrated my blog, too, from http://www.ggci.com/blog/ to http://www.ggci-blog.com, keeping the old on live as an archive. The old on still has better rankings, but the new one's coming along quite nicely. (The old one was taking too long to update each time.) Hi Doug ~ I migrated my blog, too, from http://www.ggci.com/blog/ to http://www.ggci-blog.com, keeping the old on live as an archive. The old on still has better rankings, but the new one’s coming along quite nicely. (The old one was taking too long to update each time.) ]]> By: Douglas Karr http://marketingtechblog.com/2008/07/13/domain-change-advantage-disadvantage-seo-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-174377 Douglas Karr Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:14:53 +0000 http://www.marketingtechblog.com/?p=2406#comment-174377 The old domain is one of those weird things that will work itself out on the SERP. It appears that Google is through about half of my links, I'm sure over time it will be replaced throughout the index. The old domain is one of those weird things that will work itself out on the SERP. It appears that Google is through about half of my links, I’m sure over time it will be replaced throughout the index. ]]> By: Jim Brown http://marketingtechblog.com/2008/07/13/domain-change-advantage-disadvantage-seo-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-174163 Jim Brown Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:13:07 +0000 http://www.marketingtechblog.com/?p=2406#comment-174163 Great job, Doug. Have you done the 301 redirects yet? While you rank #1 for "Marketing Technology" it is still pulling www.DouglasKarr.com as the domain you are ranking for. Great job, Doug. Have you done the 301 redirects yet? While you rank #1 for “Marketing Technology” it is still pulling http://www.DouglasKarr.com as the domain you are ranking for. ]]>