Hi Adrian,

Since your site is an established and indexed for 7 years property, I would not move it since

1- The links are actually pointing at your .co.uk domain and that won't change even with proper redirection.

2- People must probably knows this URL in some proportion

3- Your domain has build a trust from search engines that I would not play with to start from a new one.

Maybe someone would think different, but I prefer building a new site with new content or new content to my site then to risk it's futur.

What I call a RollBack is when Google goes back in the Past in terms of ranking. It happens sometimes when they run a new Algorithm or changes. They show older results in some datacenters while updated in others.

Hi Jason,

In a pure SEO perspective, I would say that Text Links are absolutely your best choice. If you choose to use the Image links don't forget to fill the alt tag. If you can go with the text links, they work just better. Image link may be better for user visual experience, but in my SEO perspective, design come second in term of performances.