Yep, seems Google treats the meta description tag as mere suggestion then anything else.

Very normal.

Hi,

I pointed out that Google is a web registrar to elude to the fact they can search registered domain names and return those as results. Google can WILL also use anchor text and links from any site they find a link to your site. Even if you disallow crawling via robots.txt.  If somebody is linking to you and Google finds it, and there are no more appropriate results they will return it when somebody searches those keywords.

I would say first your main issue is the redirect. Second you must not have a strong enough keyword profile or you just launched and have not given Google enough time to get an updated SERP out. Either way fixing the redirect should be your primary focus.

To answer your question sorry for being blunt here, the reason the parked domain is out ranking your live domain is because as far as Google is concerned it is the most relevant result. There is social media, it is registered and there is a cache of anchor text that is out ranking your live domain right now. You need to fix the redirect, build a link profile on new domain and give it time.

It may not make much sense if you look at it from only your side. But Google isn't a magic genie that can update billions of SERPs every minute. The best thing you can do is help them help you.

By fixing the redirect you tackle the issue 2 ways. 1. Even if Google returns your parked domain the user is sent to the correct domain. Second Google will see the redirect and index it appropriately thus removing the ranking from the parked domain.

I hope this helps and I didn't mean to sound rude if it came off that way,

Don

A couple things.

First Google is also a Web Registrar so they have the ability to know what domains are registered. It appears that Google has a cached version of the domain exotravel.vn indexed. It also appears to have Social Media exposure.

The redirect if setup is not correctly working. A ping and Whois search on http://exotravel.vn/ brings up no response from the server. Check the mxtoolbox entry here

Once you fix your 301 redirect issue, and have content ready for those keywords submit a site map to Google and give it some time to update.

Hope this helps,

Don

My personal experience has been up to six months.

May not be the best of news for you, but I certainly wouldn't change it back. That could further complicate things.

For now I would continual link building where you can and give it some more time.

Hope this helps,

Don

I kind of have the feeling that there is something missing in the story. This is one of the challenges that  happen when dealing with multiple hands in the kitty.

I wouldn't really buy the SEO's excuse of what they do is secret. Rather what they really mean is, we don't want to train another web company how to do what we do.

As a web developer I would understand why an SEO would want access, it could make things easier and faster. Having to go through company A to submit to get company C a change may not be exactly the service company A purchased.

As an SEO I understand why a web developer would be skittish about giving access to a company they had no hand in hiring. The web devs do a lot of hard work, some of which can actually be proprietary. I would of course in an SEO perspective be willing to work within those constraints if need be.

In the end it becomes Company's A issue. They need to find a compromise between company b and c. If it takes extra money to get the service for the SEO, or figure out which one they feel is the most valuable and fire the other and find a  replacement that is willing to work within the constraints they lay out.

My thoughts..

You could go see cattle.

See Cattle, Seattle .. okay sorry bad joke but it was stuck in my head and had to be said.

I really hope you have fun, wish I could be there.

Hi

If I understand them correctly....

DNS change would be the location for site x is now at this IP. (IP Location Change)

IIS change would be server y is now server x. (Hardware Location Change)

In which case an IIS change would likely be preferred as you don't have to wait for the new DNS update to propagate.

Hope that helps,

Don