After recently announcing it, one of my readers with a background in website management sent me an email saying that I should reconsider moving my domain from [keyword]news.org to [same keyword]lab.com.It is a content-heavy news site around products that I hope to eventually build into a more comprehensive authority for the [keyword] industry I'm covering w/ B2B services, merchandise, etc. The current domain is a bit generic & I think the new one will be more marketable.Relevant stats:320k-350k pv's/monthGoogle brings in 39% and Yahoo/Bing4% of traffic10-11% of monthly search stringscontains  newsSEOMoz Open Site Explorer stats:Page authority: 65/100 Domain authority: 58/100Linking root domains: 226Total links: 35,700I am familiar with what I need to do as far as 301 redirects, etc. I was assuming that I'd be ok after following Google's recommended procedures but now I am not so sure.
Renaming site, moving domain after 3 yrs. Should I reconsider?
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Two Points:Exact match keyworded domains, while powerful now, will be less-so in the future. Google's web-spam team has already indicated this.If it ain't broke - don't fix it. Really, it's the content that will win moving forward, not the domain name (unless the domain is unique like Twitter/Google/Yahoo/Techchrunch/etc).