albl - 1:30 am on May 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

Hi All,

One of my clients with an established trusted website old-example.com (PR6, 4+ years) is planning to move their website to a new domain new-example.com in about 8-12 months time from now. They just registered a fresh new-example.com domain will and retain the old-example.com indefinitely.

I know how to move to the new domain with 301 redirects when the time comes, however I am uncertain what to do with the new-example.com now...

The options I thought of are:
1) Create a mirror of old-example.com on the new-example.com
2) 301 redirect from new-example.com to old-example.com
3) create a couple of pages on new-example.com with a few back-links and let Google index it

For all three options I guess it makes sense to and both domains registered with the same webmaster tools account.

What is the general consensus in such case?

Many thanks,
Albl