Domains com and local domains strategy

Moved 2 locals to com? Should I drop old locals?

[silverbytes]

Hello! Experiences appreciated about that scenario:

2 local domains ranked excellent #1 in several relevant keywords.

Florida came. Same 2 local domains ranked awful.
I decided it was time to move those to .com. I did.

Now the .com sites rank awful too :(
But I have the old domain sites with permanet redirection to the new domain sites.

I wonder what would be better to do with old local sites and domains:

a) leave it with permanent redirects to the new .com sites and kill'em in 2 months

b) leave it with permanet redirects to the new .com sites and passed 2 months quit the redirect and change the content to have a stronger support between sites

c) quit now the redirects and change the content to avoid a duplicated content penalty

d) kill those sites right now

e) Please dont tell me kill the new .com and get back to the old local sites!

Your help is very appreciated.

PS: I'd like to say that I'm working in every possible failure of optimization following the know guidelines. That procedure gave good results in the past... (but not so good now)

[geoffreygag]

quit now the redirects and change the content to avoid a duplicated content penalty

Whatever you decide, don't duplicate the info. transition your best data/content to your new .com

Don't close down the old sites. At least keep the 1st page live. This page may have a decent Google PR.

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[edited by: tedster at 3:30 pm (utc) on April 5, 2004]

[silverbytes]

Is that true?
I think putting 301 redirects is a good way to avoid the site considered to have duplicated content...

Isn't it? What is gonna happen with old users accessing pages that are no more in the old domain if I remove the old content?

In the other hand I saw google crawl almost the complete site (new and old) but I just see 2 pages of my new domain listed in google search results...

Is it that just a normal delay between crawl and indexed pages or is there any problem there?

[robotsdobetter]

Go with b) >>leave it with permanet redirects to the new .com sites and passed 2 months quit the redirect and change the content to have a stronger support between sites<<

Use the redirects to have your old site visitors go to the new domain, then kill it and use them to support your new site.

Isn't it? What is gonna happen with old users accessing pages that are no more in the old domain if I remove the old content?

Tell them on the new index page that you have replaced your old site with the new site.

Is it that just a normal delay between crawl and indexed pages or is there any problem there?

You never really know about Google or Googlebot, but make sure you give it time and don't think you will see your PankRank go up anytime soon on your new site or at least to the next PR update. It might speed things up if you submit your site to Google and get some links to your site.

When did you start the new site?

[silverbytes]

Site has some 7 months since got listed in ODP, and 1 and half year live.