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Ah, thanks about it. Withdrawing a change of address is what I looked for.

Just in case if there is a need to revert.

Thanks, Luis. I feel the same way, too. That is one of the reasons my client finally decided to merge the brand.

Hi SEO5,

Thanks for your input. Yes, I am working on this, just to make sure that the mapping will be as relevant as possible.

By the way, have you had experience for "change of address" on Google Webmasters to set domain1 back to domain1 again?

This is just in case.

Many thanks,

Christian

Hi Exequiel, I am a bit confused now. Your reply seemed to contradict your first one; which I thought you were in support to migrate the domain.

You, however, raised a valid point here. Nevertheless, sometimes it is a risk due to business decision and to avoid brand confusion.

We will be still keeping the domain1 after migration, so we can have mitigation plan if this doesn't work.

I also want to seek everyone's opinion on this matter.

Hi Exequiel,

Thanks for your inputs, these are also in the links above.

Just wondering if there is anything else I need to be aware of

Hi all, my client assigned me to merge both their two domains.

To cut the long story, at the moment they have, for example, domain1.com and domain2.com. Practically, they sell quite the same products but with different content and layout. This has been happening for several years: domain1.com came first then domain2.com a couple of months after.

They noticed that domain2.com has now more traffic than domain1.com. Another reason is they want to use one placeholder to avoid brand confusion (as expected because the products are actually the same).

So, they are planning to merge the brand into domain2.com.

I think this is just the same as moving domain, isn't it?

I have been preparing all things as per SEOmoz SEO Guide: How to Properly Move Domains and Google's moving your site .

Do you have any other tips to include?

I want to make sure that the domain moving will be successful and the link juice on domain1.com can be transferred to domain2.com .

Many thanks for your help!

Probably, you can set pointing to the lower case URL.

So, even though the upper case and lower case are actually no difference for us, search engines may assume the lower case url will be the primary one.

Other alternative maybe to have a regular expression to redirect/rewrite the capitals into lower case.

I think you can write an introductory letter, showing your interest of why you want to be guest poster on their blogs. Also, introducing your business background and explain how you can also bring benefit to them.

In the end, you need to show that there will be a mutual relationship between you and them.

Make it as appealing (and honest) as possible

Hi Matthew,

Thanks very much for your explanation. I think I get to understand it better now

Many thanks,

Christian

I don't think it will have a detrimental effect to our own website. However, I would like to see from other point of view: having a descriptive anchor text to external links may help your website campaign.

Descriptive anchor text is after all aimed to persuade / impulse our visitors to click on the link. If it's not really appealing, then they probably won't bother to click.

Given due to external links, making our visitors clicking the links will definitely bring benefit to that outsourced links: traffic. However, if those website are critical (and ethical enough), they will notice than some of their traffics are referred from your site. Moreover, if your site has even bigger influence to theirs, they will start investigating your site, whether yours is legit, content-related, has good credibility, etc.

If positive, then they may acknowledge you better and may even propose a mutual co-operation / agreement in the long terms.

That's just my opinion though however