Hi guys,
I have been working on a project where a company has switched domain names due to a company name change. The site in question has been fairly well established over the last 5 years and had a page rank of 4 and good search results. Before the change the targetting keywords were at positions:
keyword 1 : 6 +7 (subpage and index)
keyword 2 : 5 (subpage)
keyword 3 : 7 (subpage)
This was good as the keywords were highly compeitive but we really wanted to push keyword 1 further up into the top 3. Now the new site has been made live this week and a simple 301 redirect from the main page to the new site has been done as well as updating Google Webmaster tool about the change of site.
The new site placed in Google fast and within 2 days keyword 1 is in position 2 with only wikiepedia above it!
My other keywords are ranking around 20-25.
Im unsure whether its best to change the 301s so i individually link to each relevant page of the new site or just leave it as it is as i couldnt have hoped for a better start to the crossover of the sites????
Also my old site is still ranking in Google in the same results as the new site. Obviously it has the redirect on and is like having 3 placements which is goodd but are there any implications??? Should i put a block on google crawling the site or should i just let it disapear from the rankings over time???
Any advice or insight into this anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated
I have been working on a project where a company has switched domain names due to a company name change. The site in question has been fairly well established over the last 5 years and had a page rank of 4 and good search results. Before the change the targetting keywords were at positions:
keyword 1 : 6 +7 (subpage and index)
keyword 2 : 5 (subpage)
keyword 3 : 7 (subpage)
This was good as the keywords were highly compeitive but we really wanted to push keyword 1 further up into the top 3. Now the new site has been made live this week and a simple 301 redirect from the main page to the new site has been done as well as updating Google Webmaster tool about the change of site.
The new site placed in Google fast and within 2 days keyword 1 is in position 2 with only wikiepedia above it!
My other keywords are ranking around 20-25.
Im unsure whether its best to change the 301s so i individually link to each relevant page of the new site or just leave it as it is as i couldnt have hoped for a better start to the crossover of the sites????
Also my old site is still ranking in Google in the same results as the new site. Obviously it has the redirect on and is like having 3 placements which is goodd but are there any implications??? Should i put a block on google crawling the site or should i just let it disapear from the rankings over time???
Any advice or insight into this anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated