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I initially that is what I was told by the webmaster.  After running my own analysis it appears that they had a meta refresh.

Thanks for all the help guys.  I think I am going to use the new website and on the old domain use page level 301 redirects.  Although the old page had a higher pr rank the new page is branded with the companies name.  I am hoping with the redirects in place that the new site will catch up with the old ones PR eventually.  Thoughts?

I was trying to find some information or data that shows a correlation between global linking and a drop in local search results.  Could you forward me any information you have on it?  Thanks.

It looks like the keywords changed drastically on the 13th.  My site was last indexed on the 11th so I am assuming that it can't be onsite issues ?

I guess my next step would be to find out what links have been indexed from the 13th on?  Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help!

My site was performing first page locally on 6 of 20 keywords, and universally on 3 of 20  keywords.  We started a link building campaign and optimization about 3 weeks ago.   When I looked at the rankings today I was happy to see that 16 of 20 keywords were in the top 20 rankings universally, but not happy to see that only 1 of the 25 words were ranking locally now.    I lost my local ranking on 5 very important keywords.   I realize that you can not rank first page for both local and organic but its as if I traded my first page local ranking for a universal ranking that appears lower on the page.  Maybe someone could point me in the right direction.

1.  Yes I have verified as such.

2.  It is redirected on a page by page basis.

3.  The new page is the same as the old page with some additions here and there over the past three months.

4.  I haven't seen any signs of bad links.

Maybe I did not explain it correctly.  My client has a company that has been around since 2004 with the same domain name.  The simply bought a NEW domain(not existing from an auction) because they wanted to change their domain name.  They moved their site 6 months ago to the brand new domain and pointed their old site to the new domain.  Nothing shady happened here just a company wanting to change their domain name.

Fast forward to present day where I have taken over the account.  There pr is 1on the new domain.  As far as I know I can not determine what their page rank was on the old domain, but I assuming that it was probably higher than 1 because they have been using it for over 9 years and were getting about 10000 hits a month.  I am wondering if it would be beneficial to move their site back to the old domain assuming it HAD a higher pr.

I have a new client who had a domain that was established in 2004.  About six months ago they moved their site over to a new domain and redirected the old domain to the new one.  Their pagerank on the new domain is 1, and I can not find any historical data on the older domain.  Would it be beneficial  to move the site back to the old domain assuming that it had a higher pagerank?  And is there a way to find out what the pagerank of the old site was before the redirect?