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We have a shop front website (www.example.com) and also a topic information website on a subdomain of the shop site (www.subdomain.example.com). www.subdomain.example.com was set up to monitor what people were looking for and measure click through rates etc. Over time the www.exmaple.com has built up PR of 4, while the www.subdomain.example.com - that has about 200 pages - has various PR's from 1 to 4.
We want to put a new site up that is combines both the domain and subdomain sites, using the www.example.com name. But we don't want to loose the link value already accrued.
Will Google penalise us if we replace what is currently on the www.example.com with brand new content?
Also, how can we get the best use of the PR built up from the subdomain without its content conflicting with the new site, that has the same info but wrapped up differently?
Could someone possibly point me in the right direction?
Cheers
MrTDude
I hope you want to shift the subdomain.example.com to the main site or did you mean that you would also change the main website URL?
If you just want to use example.com from now-on, I would advice that you should not change any content on example.com for the time being, instead simply add subdomain pages on main domian and setting up page level 301 redirects from subdomain to main domain. The redirect would help preserve the PR. This process would take upto 3-6 months.
Once the subdomain is completely transferred (PR values for most pages), then you can start with changes in content of main site but that too not more than 10% pages at a time (if site is big)
