: SEO: Moving domain without having access to the old domain The mother of my girlfriend has a contract with a company that provides her website and domain. The contract costs 360€ per year

@Samaraweera270

Will she lose [Google ranking] when we create a new website with the same text contents on a new domain without redirecting the old domain to the new domain?


Yes, you will lose your Google rankings. You are creating a brand new website on a brand-new domain.

You should consider purchasing the domain from the hosting company.


If the old domain has been around for some time, it will have gained Domain Authority (DA), "a score developed by Moz that predicts how well a website will rank on search engine result pages (SERP)."


You can check your DA here: moz.com/researchtools/ose/

Any links that you have gained will be broken once the old site dies. This is bad for SEO, but really bad for customers/visitors and bad for the web.




If you don't want to spend the money to secure your domain, you should purchase a new domain immediately and 301 permanently redirect your old content to the new site.

That way you will get the benefit of the redirects for a short time which will boost your ranking efforts.

Also keep an eye on the domain after it lapses. It may come back on the market in which case it might be possible to purchase for less than 180€.

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