I have .INFO - can I move it to .COM?

lolzap said:

This is how I see it. If you move your site onto another domain you are going to lose all the backlinks and stuff.

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I agree. How is all the link juice you built up for the .info going to xfer to .com site. Google will never see it. Their spider crawls looking for relevant content etc etc and your .com has zero link juice as its just the result of a 301 redirect. Not being an expert, have put .coms 1st page pretty quick, but this .info thing has me baffled.
I think you will be starting all over with seo for the .com. IMO.

stevemib said:

lolzap said:

This is how I see it. If you move your site onto another domain you are going to lose all the backlinks and stuff.

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I agree. How is all the link juice you built up for the .info going to xfer to .com site. Google will never see it. Their spider crawls looking for relevant content etc etc and your .com has zero link juice as its just the result of a 301 redirect. Not being an expert, have put .coms 1st page pretty quick, but this .info thing has me baffled.
I think you will be starting all over with seo for the .com. IMO.

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You apparently don't have a good understanding of redirects. Here's the answers to the questions in your reply.

1. If you do a 301 redirect, then you don't lose all the backlinks and stuff.
2. The link juice you built up gets transfered because the 301 points it to the new domain.
3. While the spiders crawl looking for relevant content, when they follow a link and it gets redirected the spider considers the new page to be the correct destination. If the content is relevant then it will be indexed as if the backlink was actually pointing to the new domain.
4. If you move a website to a new domain, and set up a 301 redirect properly, then you won't be starting over from scratch for your seo.

Google tries to make a determination about how legit the redirect is before it affects the index. If you do a totally BH thing like purchase an old domain just to get the backlinks pointing to your spammy viagra page, then google tries to catch it and will discount those backlinks.

Moving weppages is what the 301 was created for. The actual purpose is to make it possible to move a site without losing all the site promotion done for the original site. If you're totally WH in what your doing and just move your complete domain and do a redirect so people can still find the right pages, then almost all the link juice from the old domain's backlinks will transfer.