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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by apollo on Monday February 09, 2009 @01:17PM (#473882)
I was also under the impression that permanent redirects preserve pagerank... how are you supposed to execute a domain change like this properly?
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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by Jasber on Monday February 09, 2009 @01:43PM (#473932)
301 redirects are the suggested method for permanently redirecting pages for search engines.

This will preserve pagerank, but not immediately. This means for a while (1 week-3 months), many of your pages will be dropped from their current rankings.

They will be returned, eventually. But Google has to update their entire index before you'll start to see any improvements.

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