Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 01:04:44 11/21/04
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On November 20, 2004 at 21:37:12, Steven Schwartz wrote: Hi Steve, I noticed that the old "www.icdchess.com" redirects to the new "www.chessusa.com". I wonder if that could be the cause of a big loss in google ranking system. There are lots of links that point to icdchess. Are you 100% sure that those links are counted by google as links to www.chessusa.com ? If I were you, I would try to replace all those links to icdchess to links to chessusa. You could start by changing the links on talkchess.com, for instance, that all point to icdchess. You can find those links by typing the request "link:http://www.icdchess.com". Yahoo returns many more results than Google. Also, I have been told that Google gives a bonus to old domain names. But that may be a wrong rumor, like many theories about Google's algorithms. Did you notice a correlation between your drop in Google rankings and your change of domain name ? I hope this helps. Rémi
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