Domains redirect influence search rankings
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Hi seomoz, I'm currently optimizing a website which is www.photobookworldwide.com and the ranking is on 2nd page, but
looking at the result this morning, instead of showing photobookworldwide.com, it show other result which is www.photobooklaos.com on 2nd page for the keyword photobooks.
Our web developer using virtual domain, and redirected photobooklaos.com to photobookworldwide.com.
Any solution for this? need you guys to help me on this.
Cheers
Gerald
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Hi there. Thanks for ur tips here.
What's my next step from here?
It's obvious that photobooklaos.com redirected to photobookworldwide.com , but how can that influence the search results? Why does google shows photobooklaos.com since i'm optimizing for photobookworldwide.com?
Is there any solution for me to fix now?
Cheers
Gerald
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Was the domain previously redirected to photobooklaos? Both the Google info:photobookworldwide.com and cache:photobookworldwide.com are showing up as photobooklaos.com, which happens if a domain was redirected.
As a first step, I'd setup Google Webmaster Tools for the site. Telling Google about your site might help to reset that. Additionally, you can use the fetch as Googlebot tool there, to see if there are still any redirects happening that might confuse Googlebot.
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