Help About 301-redirect

[hendrix501]

I run an e-commerce website which has already a established top position for most of the major keywords I targeted. Keywords which are mostly local, bearing the name of my city.

I'm planning to change domain name and do a redirect. I want to expand my business to cover other cities, and my present domain bears the name of my city. Will these affect my rankings on those keywords? What about the links?

[pinkfluffybunny]

Yes and no.

some domains I put a 302 some a 301 depends on how Google treats them.

Here's an example - I am subbing to a client that had over 200 sites - each had it's own domain name. I combined them into one - Most of the sites I put a 301 on some however I put a 302 on -


let's take this for example "club fortuna" that site had no placement in Google - pretty good placement now under it's old domain name (it was placed inside a directory on another domain) - so I put a temp on it to see what Google would do - Placement - I'll leave it a 302 for a while ....lol - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=club+fortuna. If I see it nose dive, I'll do a 301.

Nothing is perminate with the engines - they come back......lol

Try it, if you see it doing ok leave it a 302 for a while - if it starts dropping change it to a 301.

[tdd1984]

Originally Posted by hendrix501

I run an e-commerce website which has already a established top position for most of the major keywords I targeted. Keywords which are mostly local, bearing the name of my city.

I'm planning to change domain name and do a redirect. I want to expand my business to cover other cities, and my present domain bears the name of my city. Will these affect my rankings on those keywords? What about the links?

Yes it will effect your rankings, but if you use a 301 redirect it will take around ~3 months for the changes to kick in.