301 redirects

[gregharaksin]

before i order up the new IDX on a 2nd site, i'm thinking of changing the domain name of realestatebygreg. There's really nothing on that site but it still ranks well in some searches. would a 301 redirect to a new domain name keep it in the search results? There's probably only 10 pages on the site.

[ericbramlett]

In order to retain the same ranking, you would need to have the same or similar title/description + content. You would want to recreate similar pages to what exist on the current site and redirect each page to its coinciding page on the new site.

[webmaster]

It's not a perfect solution but it's your best bet for conserving rankings. I have been forced to switch domains before and done 301's and it "pretty much" allowed us to keep what we had for the main page - internal pages did not fair anywhere near as well though.