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[leen3o]

Hello.. (Again).. My last question of the day...

Say I have a really good 'aged' domain thats had a site on it for years... The client decides that they want to re-brand and they want to change the doman name slightly (Have tried to convince otherwise but not listening)...

So I put a 301 on the old 'aged' domain, pointing to this new 'not so aged domain'... I know that the inbound links are now associated with this new domain BUT... is the 'AGE' property of the domain also transferred (If that makes sense...)

(Reason I ask is I heard that Google seems to look more favorably on the aged domains at the moment for some reason )

[chrishirst]

It's not the age of the domain name it's the age of the links that appear to be the deciding factor.


have a read at http://www.highranki...ue142.htm#guest

[rolf]

Depending on how new the new domain is it may be in the 'ageing delay' for a while, almost regardless of what you do.

I did the same thing with a 301 redirect when changing our doman from www.our-ebay-id.com to www.our-company-name.com. The old domain was ranking well and getting decent amounts of traffic and the new one was fresh out of the box not even indexed.

We ended up losing virtually all our Google traffic and we're still waiting for the ageing delay to expire. Ouch!