SEO disasters moving domain for a high traffic website?

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Published on 2011-03-19T11:07:38Z Indexed on 2011/03/19 16:18 UTC
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We're looking at moving our website from http://www.wikijob.co.uk to http://www.wikijob.com/uk as we spread our wings internationally.

Our .co.uk website has a PR6 and received around 1/2 million visitors a month, 40% international. The wikijob.com domain, while registered for a while, has not been used nor promoted.

I am concerned that moving domain could really haemorrhage our traffic and result in a loss of goodwill from Google, even if we use a 301, but equally, if we could transfer that pagerank to the .com domain, that would give us a massive head start around the world.

Should we do it, or should we start over with .com and leave .co.uk as is?

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