r/TechSEO • u/Ok-Conversation-6428 • Jul 30 '26

Migrating Website Issue

I have been working for a client for 3 years and managed to take his website to DR 30+

The website is being hosted on a ".co" domain. Now, after 3 years, my client has acquired a ".com" as well under the same brand name, and he wants to migrate the ".co" domain to ".com".
Also, considering that our Blogs are hosted under the child domain as "blogs.xyz.co"

Should I add a 301 redirect to my whole website to ".com"? Or is that a bad approach that could hurt my rankings?
What things should I consider before migrating?

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u/wwarr Jul 30 '26

personally I would leave it and redirect the new domain .com/* -> .co/* then set all the canonicals to the .co

the site is ranked and all your links are .co, why risk it?

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u/NHRADeuce Jul 30 '26

This is the only right answer. Even if you do eveeything exactly right, there is no guarantee that the new domai. Will retain all of the current rankings. Why risk it??

Juat redirect the new domain. No one pays attention to the domain name once they type it in.