Moving subdomain ? How to ?

[VasilTasev]

Hi all.

I've purchased a domain name two years ago with the idea to offer wide range of services. I've also created a sub-domain providing specific service for highly competitive keyword. Sadly plans went wrong and I didn't use the root domain name at all, just the sub-domain providing that service. There aren't much links to that sub-domain, but all are quality links, until recently I've managed to keep positions between 5 and 7 without any effort, but yesterday I saw that it's dropped to 9.

The question is, before I start to build links and write articles to get back up my domain, is it worth to move that sub-domain to my original root domain. As I said, there aren't much links to that sub-domain, it only has pagerank1, also for the last year the original root domain was redirected (301) to the sub-domain to not loose traffic and I'm scared if I reverse this procedure and redirect my sub-domain to the root domain that Google will get confused.

It's a tricky question I know

[AlanMosley]

It may be confused for a few weeks, but it will come good.

These things are better done sooner than later.

[VasilTasev]

Yeah, I think that way too. I am using my desired keyword in the sub-domain name, but I don't think it's giving me much credit.