Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
We have one main website with a very specific name, focused only on a gaming platform. Let's say xboxrandomdomainname.com. Obviously, in this domain we cannot include content about the PlayStation. For us, it's a matter of order, not of search engine optimization, and having another domain for the other platform it's something I believe is needed to offer a better service to our readers.
Anyhow, we now need to move to multiplatform. Our main domain, let's call it xboxrandomdomainname.com has been around since 2001. So, google "aging delay" does not affect it. We have a secondary domain, launched "just" in 2004, which we may call allconsolesdomainname.com. Currently, just our community is hosted in a subdomain of this domain (community.allconsolesdomainname.com), but since we wanted to expand our coverage to new platforms, we wanted to create more subdomains (different sites), one per platform, like ps2.allconsoledomainname.com and so on.
Anyhow, we have that other domain, which has been around for much longer, that we need to fit into this new structure. But from what I understood reading about the aging delay, moving our old website to something like xbox.allconsoledomainname.com would be stupid and would go against our ranking, as we would be moving a website that is five years old for search engines into a domain that is much more recent. We could use different domain names for each platform, but this again would prevent us from using our more recent generic domain allconsolesdomainname.com launched in 2004, which would still be better than a completely new domain.
Hope this is not too complicated... but in your opinion, what should we do? I repeat, we really cannot feature content about other platforms into our original, older website.
A note: our old website has 29300 pages listed in google; the most recent domain just 300 (it'a forum).
Thanks!
