Massive Domain Redirection Problem

[walmslei]

Our primary domain is (example.co.uk) and we have done all our optimisation using this domain. But this domain was redirect to (example.net) because of some hosting issue. Over the year of optimisation on (example.co.uk) the other domain (example.net) got page rank of 4 and we improved organic listing. My problem is NOW.. we are now launching our new ecommere website next week and this will be host on (example.co.uk)so other domain (example.net) will be stopped and redirection will be removed.

Anyone here please tell me ,,what will happen to out page rank and organic listing? Though all the optimisation have been done for a year on (example.co.uk) but due to redirection example.net benefited. Could we transfer page rank or keep our organic listing position intact?

[edited by: jatar_k at 1:45 pm (utc) on Mar. 18, 2008]
[edit reason] please use example for domains [/edit]

[tedster]

What you're asking about is setting up the redirect in the reverse direction - and I doubt that you can instantly shift gears, keeping your PR and rankings intact. First, the page content will be different. Next, shiftng 301's araound like that might give you some trust problems, at lesat for a bit.

I'd say the most important factor will be how many backlinks each domain has and how good they are. But I would plan for a bump in the road here, no matter what.

[WiseWebDude]

Oh yea, I would plan for a BIG bump in the road to be sure. Organic listing might change over to new one for a bit, then it will drop...have seen it many times. Once you do something MAJOR, like that, it's always a hard thing to watch. I would say 2 - 3 months and it should start pulling around though, from my observations.

[The Contractor]

What you're asking about is setting up the redirect in the reverse direction - and I doubt that you can instantly shift gears, keeping your PR and rankings intact. First, the page content will be different. Next, shiftng 301's around like that might give you some trust problems, at least for a bit.

Prepare yourself... Google does not handle this in the same manner they used to. I actually 301'd a 7-year-old domain to a new domain (same domain basically only non-hyphenated). Both domains have exact same whois and kept on same server (different IP). I did this the 1st week in January and am thinking it probably wasn't the greatest idea, but then I tell my self Search Engine companies shouldn't have that kind of power that keeps you from doing the right thing...

Just to let you know, out of maybe 3500 pages Google has 38 still indexed under the old domain and 1210 under the new domain. The new domain has not been assigned PR well over 3 months later, and traffic tanked after about 2-weeks and is coming back slowly. In cases like this I wish Google handled things differently...