Earlier last week, in a Google Hangout on Google+ at the 23:30 mark, John Mueller said Google does recommend that when you move a domain name, that you try to get those linking to the old domain to link to the new one. But if you do not, John Mueller said if you don’t you wouldn’t “see any critical loss by not doing this.”

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