illmasterj
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Some of you may have seen that I have bought a better branded domain for my niche site.
Current domain: niche-site.com
New domain: nichesite.com
My concern was that if I grow this brand massively (away from just affiliate offers), people would be typing nichesite.com and wouldn't find my site. Or a competitor would snipe my business.
This website is a year or so old, has a DR of less than 10. The new domain has no links pointing to it, no manual actions. It's getting a nice amount of traffic and making me north of $1k per month.
Should I migrate the site to the new domain and suck up the short term loss in traffic (and hope Google treats the site just as well on a new domain)?
Or should I just redirect nichesite.com to niche-site.com and stick with niche-site.com for life?
My thoughts are:
Current domain: niche-site.com
New domain: nichesite.com
My concern was that if I grow this brand massively (away from just affiliate offers), people would be typing nichesite.com and wouldn't find my site. Or a competitor would snipe my business.
This website is a year or so old, has a DR of less than 10. The new domain has no links pointing to it, no manual actions. It's getting a nice amount of traffic and making me north of $1k per month.
Should I migrate the site to the new domain and suck up the short term loss in traffic (and hope Google treats the site just as well on a new domain)?
Or should I just redirect nichesite.com to niche-site.com and stick with niche-site.com for life?
My thoughts are:
- niche-site.com looks cheap, and it always will
- the website will never have this little traffic, so it's best to rip off the band aid now
- losing that $1k a month will hurt the project right now. I'm reinvesting everything right now so if the traffic drops a lot I will have less to spend