Beth:

Some search engines won't really notice, at least not fast.  I have had some sites remain ranked the same way for years, according to old title, description, and keywords.

Google will adjust your placements fairly quickly, based on page title and keyword saturation, based on whatever is at the P2 site.

As long as the older domain is not blacklisted anywhere, and if did not have any special rank before which might be lost due to a change in keywords,  then the move should help rather than hurt.

The older domain will get a few bonus points for having been around longer.  If you go ahead and register this domain for 10 years into the future you can pick up more brownie points from google.  They figure if you are planning on being around that long then the web site must be one of the better ones on topic...

Beth,

I subscribed to Point2 one year ago and moved a domain which had been in existance for many years, and was well ranked with many search engines, including Google. I took care to build the same SEO friendly attributes in to my new Point2 site and didn't miss a beat. Nothing has changed for me.

I've actually been thinking about changing my domain name on my point2 site, but was wondering about the effect on my rankings too.  I'm doing pretty good for my key words with Google and Yahoo.  If my domain name changes, but all other content remains the same what will be the effect?

Also, I know there must be a way to redirect people to the site at the new domain name if they go to the old one.  Anyone know how that would be accomplished?

Googel PR tends to be horribly over-rated. In a recent PR update (over the last 10 days or so) many very high PR sites (blogs mostly) got hammered. However their search engine placements remained steady.

PR is but one of dozens and dozens of factors used to rank where to put a page in search results. PR as displayed in teh toolbar isn't even really accurate anyway.

Where a page shows up in search results is far more important than the Google PR.

I changed the domain on my blog about a year and a half ago. Took a short-term (3 week or so) *small* hit in search placement for some search terms that had part of the old domain in them.

If you have a lot of people linking to the old domain, it would be best if you could get them to change the link to the new domain. But that may prove difficult.

You're changing from ViewAZRE to Move2Sedona, correct? And the Sedona domain is the older of the two? If that's the case I think the Sedona domain is a little better (it at least has the keyword Sedona in it) and wouldn't worry at all about a PR difference. You may take a short term hit in placement while Google sorts it out, but it would be worth it in the end...

"Business card on the web" is a pretty much overused, 1990's term. You really only need one "business card"...

Does it get traffic? Does it rank well in search engines for any reasonable term someone might use? If the answer to either of those is a "yes", then it couldn't hurt to keep it. You could get a domain name attached to it and just let it ride. (I would add a prominent button on the home page linking to the "new" Move2Sedona site.)

If it doesn't get much traffic or rank well, then it may be time to let it go when the hosting comes up for renewal.

The whole site appears to be built in tables, so it has GOT to be excruciating to update.