Were we bamboozled?

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Remie

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I believe our store's website value has been shanghai'd by the web design company that made it.

5+ years ago our store owner hired a web design company to make the store's website. Our owner had a previous domain for the store for them to use. However, when they launched the site they recommended using a domain that they owned because it was more "SEO friendly". Our owner didn't understand what he was doing and agreed to it, so they forwarded his domain to theirs and launched the site under their domain URL.

Now, after 5+ years, we want to leave their company and manage the site in-house. But correct me if I'm wrong: all of the value of the backlinks we've been building for the past 5+ years that are directed at their domain will be lost if we break away without taking their domain with us. AKA Our organic ranking will tank.:disgust:
 


If you don't get the domain name when you move then yes, all the rankings will go away because the links were built to the other domain name.
 
Thanks for the reply daseoman.

That's what I thought.

Does Google (or bing, yahoo, etc.) have any procedures in place to correct this? Or does this have to be handled IRL without exception?
 
IRL without exception...

Remie said:
Thanks for the reply daseoman.

That's what I thought.

Does Google (or bing, yahoo, etc.) have any procedures in place to correct this? Or does this have to be handled IRL without exception?
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