I have a question regarding parking good value domain.

[OrangeGuys]

I have a question regarding parking good value domain. A client has a great website 'A' with page rank of 5 and a lot of traffic. They want to change the URL and redesign the site. So they have parked the domain 'A' and will later redirect it to the new domain, this will be in a month time. My questions is, by parking the old domain 'A' would they have lost its SEO value or will it be given to the new URL once they place a 301 redirect on it.

Also, would it not have been better not to park domain 'A', keep it live and just redirect it once new domain goes live, notifying Google in Webmaster tools?

[FedeEinhorn]

100% agree.

However, I think they already parked the URL. Did you?

As if you did, it will start loosing its ranking (if it didn't already).

[JamesNorquay]

To be honest is is not a wise thing to do where you have a working website with good PR and links and to park it/ take down all the content and then the domain goes out of the index.

My advice is to keep that site live until the new site is ready to launch, on that day implement 301 mapping from the old site to the new site.