NilObject Blog: The Joys of SEO - Jonathan Johnson's Blog
Andrew Bredow
· 4 months ago
Good post Jon, those are some nice sites. The quanitity of people trying to game the system has definitely increased dramatically, making it more difficult for the average web user to appear high in search rankings.
Most sites who have issues with SEO are struggling either from technical difficulties (e.g. bad sitemaps, poor URL structures, or duplicate content across multiple domains) or they are just not offering unique content. The latter case causes many to resort to scam methods like link building to get higher rankings, thereby perpetuating the cycle.
In your latter example, did you have a 301 redirect from all pages on the original site to the new domain? I recently moved a site and most of my links in Google were updated within about 24 hours.
Jonathan Johnson
· 4 months ago
Yep, I did the 301s last Thursday as part of the "change of address" thing in Google's webmaster tools. Didn't show up until yesterday still.
I do think a lot of it was caused by a new site showing up with a mirror of the content of the other domain that was already indexed, and then me issuing 301s. Unfortunately due to the legal things happening behind the scenes, I had to have both be independent until Friday night.
Hopefully it will honor the sitemap that says to update daily, and it will pick up my meta changes shortly. That should help give it a flying chance in the search results.
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Most sites who have issues with SEO are struggling either from technical difficulties (e.g. bad sitemaps, poor URL structures, or duplicate content across multiple domains) or they are just not offering unique content. The latter case causes many to resort to scam methods like link building to get higher rankings, thereby perpetuating the cycle.
In your latter example, did you have a 301 redirect from all pages on the original site to the new domain? I recently moved a site and most of my links in Google were updated within about 24 hours.
I do think a lot of it was caused by a new site showing up with a mirror of the content of the other domain that was already indexed, and then me issuing 301s. Unfortunately due to the legal things happening behind the scenes, I had to have both be independent until Friday night.
Hopefully it will honor the sitemap that says to update daily, and it will pick up my meta changes shortly. That should help give it a flying chance in the search results.