| I would definitely put up your old domain and leave the content the way it was, to try to get that back in the SERP. Take your new domain and create new content there to try to build it up in the SERP over time. Google seems to love aged domains. I've always been hesitant to change domains. I have changed the URLs on sites so going from services.html to /service with a 301 Google seems to keep the pages in the same place in the SERP. I feel it's very risky to depend on Google for your traffic at this point. Definitely easier for it to disappear/drop, it doesn't feel like it used to be this way, it was pretty dependable if you had good content and were user friendly. I miss Classic Google, I feel like SEO was more fair and even back then. You create a site, with good human content and Google rewards you. Now I can search for a clients keywords and there is spam, malware and even 404 on the first page but no regular sites with good content. Maybe Google or someone will bring back what was Classic Search someday and can get the majority of people using it again. I literally loved Google, I have shirts and hats, dreamed of working there. I'm definitely heart broken over the way they have changed over the past few years. RIP Classic Google. |
Yes, but what choice do you have?