Deciding on domain
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Hi,
I have a company website that I have access to and it's bcannon.remax-mississippi.com. It allows you to choose a domain and have it 301 redirected so I changed it to Oxfordmissrealestate.com. I noticed that the page and domain authority for bcannon.remax-mississippi.com was pretty high so I took off the Oxfordmissrealestate.com domain and just left it as this subdomain.
My question is, would you leave it how it is as the subdomain or change it? Thanks!
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Without looking too deep into it, the authority is most likely coming from the domain level, not the subdomain.
So the majority of the authority would only be passed if your particular page was linked to from their domain. If they can link to/301 redirect to your new domain, that would pass most of the authority.
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Id still change it either way. Your own domain is still better. You wouldn't be having this problem if you fully controlled it so eventually, if you dont move, it will lead to other problems for you (probably)
301 each of the old pages (if that's possible) to the new page urls so the content is with you. Add a canonical tag on the old content (if they aren't cooperative) and link to the new url of the content.
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Thanks Oleg,
That was another question I had. It's my site, but I would have to leave that content behind, because if I left, they would either give the site to someone else, or use that content for themselves and maybe steal my rankings (I don't know if they know how to do that but I am going to assume they will)
I wouldn't even be contributing to this site if the page and domain authority weren't as good as they are. Any thoughts on that?
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Use your own domain and start building authority to it.
Reasons:
1 - Its your site. If you decide to leave remax and create your own dedicated RE website, you would be off to a great start
2 - Much prettier/professional URL for marketing in both online/offline marketing initiatives
3 - If the old domain 301 redirects to the new domain, all that authority will pass over
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