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Just following up again for anyone who has stumbled on this.

We recovered to about 95% of where we were before the domain tld switch in late September.  We've been climbing ever since too.

I wanted to update everyone on this.

We switched move to .com from .net.  301s were all in place.  No other changes.

We've lost about 30% of search traffic.  Within the last two weeks, traffic has leveled off -- it's been flat so I'm expecting that the worst is over.  WMT is showing a boatload of our urls getting reindexed which makes me feel a bit better.

Here's to a rebound these next few weeks!

Can you kindly give me an example of "plan a link and social strategy"? Just not sure what you mean exactly.

20million pageviews, so even a larger impact -- which is why we're incredibly nervous!

I think we may just point the .com to the .net address for now.  We're not branded as company-dot-net so we're often told, "hey i went to company.com and i didnt see your site!" which is a major annoyance.

Our other problem is our URLs.  Today, they look like domain.net/category/node/ID-number ... we were thinking about moving to domain.net/content-page-title/ but not sure if its worth it since our URLs are so indexed in google.

Thanks again for your input with all of this

1. about 8k uniques per month

Thanks for your response.

1. would you say long term we're better off using .com?  so do we sacrifice a potential 10% drop today for a 20% increase tomorrow?

2. is it relevant for SEO though if we switch?

We're thinking about moving our domain from www.domain.net to domain.com as we just acquired the dot com domain.  www.domain.net receives roughly 20million pageviews per month and gets about 90% of it's traffic from search engines.

What is best to do in this situation?

1. Should we start using .com instead of .net?  301 redirecting traffic to the .com from .net?
2. Should we drop the www in front?

I wanted to update everyone on this.

We switched move to .com from .net.  301s were all in place.  No other changes.

We've lost about 30% of search traffic.  Within the last two weeks, traffic has leveled off -- it's been flat so I'm expecting that the worst is over.  WMT is showing a boatload of our urls getting reindexed which makes me feel a bit better.

Here's to a rebound these next few weeks!