Redirecting from .org to .com, Penalties?

can you be penalized for on search engines

[deverson]

I want to find out if there are any penalties for 301 redirecting a domain from a .org by the search engines

thanks

[Terabytes]

I'm currently in the same boat, my 301 redirect is actually working out quite nicely.

the site disappeared for about 3 weeks and is now showing up again with no loss in ranking...

IMHO you just need to wait it out and make sure your redirect is correctly created.

[tedster]

There can be more trouble if the target domain is newly registered, or perhaps previsouly owned and mis-used. But waiting it out and just continuing with solid development will, eventually prevail. It's just that the wait may be more like months in the situation I described.

We have a client who went from the .org to a newly purchased .com that a previous owner let drop -- Yahoo and MSN came along in just a few weeks, but Google is still a problem.

[Receptional]

Or you could 301 the .com to the .org instead.

Use the .com for offline branding. .org for online marketing.

[tedster]

I agree with Receptional, that's certainly the quickest and safest route. If the business owner is not concerned about the final url being a .org, you avoid all the current googlishness.

[caveman]

> googlishness

tedster, did you just coin that term? It's perfect. May we have your permission to use it? For non-commercial purposes only of course. ;-)