I feel that there should be some form of redirect that can be conducted without passing on link juice value.

From my perspective, it's not gaming the system or trying to game Google. My client doesn't want any link juice passing on, but wants to keep the old domain for people accessing the domain directly.

It's a shame really. Google holds a massive grudge, even though these guys trusted a big name in the SEO industry.

Sorry it's taken a bucket load of time to get back to you!

Ideally, they're looking at some form redirection to avoid any form of user interaction.

A meta-refresh might be the best route to go down, I'm going to noindex/nofollow the website and put forward a meta-refresh solution to them.

I don't think a second or two in lag would be a problem, as users hitting the .com version of the website will slowly phase out anyway.

Thanks buddy!

A new client has a domain which has been hammered by bad links, updates etc and it's basically on its arse because of previous SEO guys.

They have various domains for their business (brand.com, brand.co.uk) and want to use a fresh domain and take it from there. Their current domain is brand.com (the ruined one). They're not bothered about the rankings for brand.com but they want to redirect brand.com to brand.co.uk so that previous clients can find them easily.

Would a 302 redirect work for this? I don't want to set up a 301 redirect as I don't want any of the crappy links pointing across.

Thanks!