Doing URL change losses SEO ranking or not?

[LayaPaul]

Hi Webmasters,

I would like to move shipwaves.me to shipwaves.aeHowever, our website is concentrated on middle east countries and moreover, we have though .me is middle east [United Arab Emirates} and later with SEO advice, we have taken .ae.Besides, our confusion is if the website move from Shipwaves.me to the new domain shipwaves.ae this makes our SEO ranking loss or not?some of our keywords has been started showing on various search pages. So, anyone knows about this concern, please let me know.

[maxi0218]

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[BartonInteractive]

This is a difficult one to answer, as Google as explicitly stated that if you use 301 redirects to do this, your ranking will not be affected. On the other hand, I have heard 1-2 SEO professionals say that they have found otherwise.

Hope this is helpful!

Zack