Our client - bedonwellcounselling.co.uk - provides formal training for counsellors. I put a website together for them a few years back and it has performed well.
Recently I rebuilt the website under a new domain - bedonwelltraining.co.uk - and I put in a whole load of 301 redirects to maintain the search engine ranking.
In the very near future however, we will be building a new site for a counselling centre and they want to use the original domain - bedonwellcounselling.co.uk for this.
The logic behind this is completely sensible as they are separating out the counselling practice and the training business. However, my question is, if I use the old domain for this new centre and pull all the 301’s what is the risk to the SEO status for the newer ‘training’ domain? In other words, how long do you need to keep the 301’s redirecting before a new domain stands on it’s own two feet as it were?
No one really knows the answer. But I would say that as long as both sites are properly submitted to the Google Search console, then you should be good to go.
Not quite sure what you mean here? The 301’s are all fine at present. What I’m concerned about is using the old domain (which is currently an alias for the training site) for a brand new site and whether the training site will have sufficient ranking without those 301’s.
If I search for Bedonwell Training (redirected domain) , bedonwellcounselling.co.uk is still the first domain to be returned! Some bedonwelltraining.co.uk pages appear further down. maybe just needs another week or so?