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by savories 5145 days ago
Yup. It took us several months to get our page rank back. We did everything "by the book" too.

Also: did you request a change of address in Webmaster tools? You have to control both domains, and request a "Change of Address" from old to new.
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useflyer 5145 days ago
I should clarify. We've been ranking for "Safe Shepherd" and SafeShepherd.com. A 301-redirect from MelonCard.com shouldn't bring DOWN our rank for "Safe Shepherd" on SafeShepherd.com. Unless I'm missing how the algorithm works..
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MiguelHudnandez 5145 days ago
If MelonCard was the primary source of "google juice" for SafeShepherd.com, then the change would certainly affect your rank.
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Danieru 5145 days ago
301 redirects are supposed to transfer the link juice so that couldn't have been the issue.
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