E-consultancy.com site migration - SEO tips?

Hi Ashley,

it sounds somewhat similar to what we recently did for a well established european link directory, iozoo.com, where the site was in essesce dropped and was resurrected.  ..and you know how Google tends to handle these kinds of domains in these days.  You'll most likely not have a direct pagerank transfer but "old" site will certainly help with the re-calculation which will most likely take place.

I do not think anyone can predict the length of the switch-over but given that the redirections are done properly and that the new site is SEO optimised, the results should be fine.  The most important thing I think in this process would be to try and see everything from the search engine's point of view with regard to the status, structure, and link (to the old side).   With that in mind it may be worth looking not only at the code, whether it is search engine optimised and redirects, but also things like DNS entries, settings, IP classes, etc.

I hope this helps.

regards,

Denis
www.naxtech.com