Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 01:18:12 11/21/04
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On November 21, 2004 at 04:04:44, Rémi Coulom wrote: >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 Also, Google's advice to webmaster is: "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content." This is strongly penalized, according to what I have been told. If at one point you had your web site duplicated on the two domains, that may have been the cause of a big penalty. Rémi
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