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Does changing domain name hurts search engine ranking and page rank?

by rsmllc
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My blog has .INFO TLD. It's about 3 year old. I recently got .COM TLD for the same domain.

Now, my question is: does changing domain name from example.info to example.com hurts my ranking and pagerank? By changing TLD do I lose all the backlinks I got for .INFO TLD?

I have been redirecting .COM to .INFO and search engines has indexed domain with .COM TLD as well.

Try search for 'hacktutors.info' in Google. And also 'hacktutors.com'. In my case, when I search for 'hacktutors.info', it shows 7 well structured site links, but when I search for 'hacktutors.com', it shows link only compact site links. Why is this?

Can anyone with experience can explain me?
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  • Profile picture of the author hipeopo02
    Originally Posted by rsmllc View Post

    My blog has .INFO TLD. It's about 3 year old. I recently got .COM TLD for the same domain.

    Now, my question is: does changing domain name from example.info to example.com hurts my ranking and pagerank? By changing TLD do I lose all the backlinks I got for .INFO TLD?

    I have been redirecting .COM to .INFO and search engines has indexed domain with .COM TLD as well.

    Try search for 'hacktutors.info' in Google. And also 'hacktutors.com'. In my case, when I search for 'hacktutors.info', it shows 7 well structured site links, but when I search for 'hacktutors.com', it shows link only compact site links. Why is this?

    Can anyone with experience can explain me?
    no. you might have to set up 301s for all your old links and depending on how big that is it could be a headache. then you wait for a bit and should be totally indexed again.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Just know that anytime you redirect one domain/URL to another domain/URL you risk dropping/disappearing in the SERPs even If it's only temporary. Google has thousands of servers & they don't all sync at the same time.
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