Will changing subdomain affect page rank?

**xDan** · 07-20-2008, 05:23 AM

Hey,

I'm thinking of moving my blog from "games.mysite.com/blog/" to "blog.mysite.com".

Will this affect my blog's search engine ranking at all?

Obviously I will redirect to the new location. But "games.mysite.com" is a lot more popular than just "mysite.com", so I wonder if the move will reduce the ranking of my blog posts. Or does only the popularity of the domain (or the blog page itself?) figure into the ranking?

**chrishirst** · 07-20-2008, 05:43 AM

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Will this affect my blog's search engine ranking at all?

Yes, and it can take several weeks, sometimes months, for the redirects to be fully applied.

**david_john** · 07-21-2008, 03:07 AM

it takes some time for SE to redirect all ur pages, but as u have 301 redirected all ur direct users as well as users coming thro organic search results, would land up in correct page.