Should I put my own domain on high-ranking Weebly page?

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Believe it or not, my best ranking money site is a mysite.weebly.com site. It has really good content but also some links. It's a narrow niche. I don't know how it got to ranking so good, other than maybe weebly gives it SEO juice. It's a mystery to me. I thought all along it was just good content... the best content of all of my various sites within the niche. But maybe others have linked to it and I didn't even know about it. However, due to the nature of this niche, links are very, very hard to come by.

I don't dare want to mess up the SERP on this page. However, it would be more professional if the site were Mysite.com. No change of the page content, just the domain. Any way this could be done and not destroy the SERP on my current weebly site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ranksword
    The links juice will not pass to the new domain, so its difficult to say whether it will maintain the same ranking or not.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by Blogdum View Post

      The links juice will not pass to the new domain, so its difficult to say whether it will maintain the same ranking or not.
      Really? Weebly service doesn't do any redirects at all?

      If you do get 301 redirects from your old subdomain to the new one there should be much of a problem. Redirect is not as good as a link that points to the correct address, but it's much better than nothing. Of course, you never know how the SERP rankings go.

      If you decide to one day leave Weebly you never get those subdomain backlinks with you. That's why you should've used your own domain from the start. Switching now gives some control back to you.

      It seems to me that OP doesn't really know his/her backlink profile. That's something I'd investigate. Majestic or Ahrefs are some of the companies that can help.
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  • Profile picture of the author CPABeyondNetwork
    You can do 301 from weebly to new site. Site will probably lose ranking but it will come back after few days. But if you think this was just luck don't do it. Just leave weebly website.


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  • Profile picture of the author alvinchua91
    The sooner you move, the better. Known as 'cutting loss'.

    So as mentioned above, do a 301 redirect wherever applicable, but also do whatever SEO you did to get the above rankings but for the new domain name.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      The above replies are just a bunch of nonsene, from link juice to 301,
      and all crazy stuff in between.

      Complete misreading and not knowing what you are asking about,
      as well as just lunacy.

      Weebly makes it very easy to get/use a custom domain and point it there.

      Just google it, or peruse their site.

      After it's done and done, nothing SEO has been altered.

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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I don't use Weebly but I seriously doubt anyone is doing a 301 redirect from a 3rd party sub-domain to a self hosted domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author annewilliams123
    Obviously, one must put content on the high ranking websites.
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