Undo a 301 or Starting New Domain?
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Hi Guys & Gals,
I have a question I'd appreciate your input on.
Quick History
When I first started in web design it was just me and a couple of clients. I had a website based on my name on the domain moxby.org.uk. The only 'SEO' work done on it was a bit of on-site work, various links based on forum and blog activity I was involved in (genuine involvement not crappy link building) and of course, building websites with a credit in the footer.When we got serious about the business we considered and finally put in place a new website, new branding and 301'd old URLs to their shiny new location on the new domain: _summitweb.net _(put in place about 12 months ago)
Ranks were pretty much maintained and until recently we ranked well locally (still figuring the fallout from the last week or so's changes).
The Question I would like to build a personal website, well I'm going to anyway. But as it's a personal/showcase website I need a personal URL for it and my natural choice would be my old url moxby.org.uk. However it is not that simple because summitweb.net is benefitting from redirected links and I don't want to harm our business' rankings just to reclaim a personal URL.
So... is there benefit or would it be to my detriment to undo the 301 and build a website on moxby.org.uk or would it, in fact, just make more sense to buy a new domain and have a clean slate?
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Fab, thanks for taking the time to reply that really helps going forward. Much appreciated.
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If you were going to do this on a large scale, I'd say don't do it, but as both sites are related to each other by means of you, and there's no reason you can't link to your business site from your personal site, there's not problem with that. The summitweb.net site will get some benefit of having a link to it from the moxby.org.uk site and the the moxby.org.uk site will maintain the benefit it's currently getting from it's inbound links. You're in good shape with that.
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Well that was going to be my first reaction, but I didn't know whether that would dilute the link value currently being directed to summitweb.net and inadvertently harm its rankings, just to replace it with one incoming link from moxby.org.uk? Do you think building the site on the first domain is the best of both worlds or risky for the ranking of summitweb.net?
Thanks!
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Why not build your website on the _moxby.org.uk domain _ and add a link from it's home page to the summitweb.net and get the best of both worlds?
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