Hello fellow DP'ers,
Firstly a brief history. My site started out as .com, but I had terrible terrible problems with my host, moved to another host & had terrible problems with them too. Basically my visitors couldn't see the site & the host wouldn't help me. At 39 weeks pregnant I was desperate & a friend offered to help me get a .com.au domain name (you have to be a business to get .com.au). So, the move was quickly made before my baby came along.
Anyway, the site was always intended for an international audience, and it does have many visitors from overseas but I can't help wondering if the .com.au is hurting me. I still own .com & have full control of it, but just have a fairly basic homepage up (without AS ads). I guess in my usual long winded way, would it be beneficial to move the site back to the .com? I rank fairly well with Google, how would moving from .com.au to .com hurt this? Would it take a long time to recover?
Firstly a brief history. My site started out as .com, but I had terrible terrible problems with my host, moved to another host & had terrible problems with them too. Basically my visitors couldn't see the site & the host wouldn't help me. At 39 weeks pregnant I was desperate & a friend offered to help me get a .com.au domain name (you have to be a business to get .com.au). So, the move was quickly made before my baby came along.
Anyway, the site was always intended for an international audience, and it does have many visitors from overseas but I can't help wondering if the .com.au is hurting me. I still own .com & have full control of it, but just have a fairly basic homepage up (without AS ads). I guess in my usual long winded way, would it be beneficial to move the site back to the .com? I rank fairly well with Google, how would moving from .com.au to .com hurt this? Would it take a long time to recover?