Google Issue with ranks
I have a client who up until about 5 weeks ago had 3 different domains,
We now only have one with the relavent permanent 301 redirects in place, at first the sites team made a bit of an error in implementing the 301's, so took it down for a while and then re applied it again. It is all working ok now except that on of the old domains is still ranking quite highly for some keywords more than others.
ALl rankings were originally in quitea a good position at one time. Is there any chance that we could have been penaliesed for anything to do with the 301 issues we may have had.
What can we do to resolve this, i nedd to get them all ranking back in the top ten where the once were.
Anyone had this kind of issue before.
Thanks
Shane
We now only have one with the relavent permanent 301 redirects in place, at first the sites team made a bit of an error in implementing the 301's, so took it down for a while and then re applied it again. It is all working ok now except that on of the old domains is still ranking quite highly for some keywords more than others.
ALl rankings were originally in quitea a good position at one time. Is there any chance that we could have been penaliesed for anything to do with the 301 issues we may have had.
What can we do to resolve this, i nedd to get them all ranking back in the top ten where the once were.
Anyone had this kind of issue before.
Thanks
Shane
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they had
domain-a.co.uk
domain-b.co.uk
they rebranded to
domain-c.co.uk
they want to rid the SE of the domain-a.co.uk & domain-b.co.uk but always have a 301 redirect to there site, there was i time when all 3 domains contained exact content, they were penalised for this, hence we now have the 301 in place.
At first the comapnies tech team screwed up the 301 for a short while, they may have also been penalised for this.
We have noticed the ranks for their top keywords fluctuating a lot, top 10 to top 30 back to top 5 then top 20 etc etc. but the old domains are showing too in the results.
Does the old domain not dissapear out of the rankings eventually.
Shane
they had
domain-a.co.uk
domain-b.co.uk
they rebranded to
domain-c.co.uk
they want to rid the SE of the domain-a.co.uk & domain-b.co.uk but always have a 301 redirect to there site, there was i time when all 3 domains contained exact content, they were penalised for this, hence we now have the 301 in place.
At first the comapnies tech team screwed up the 301 for a short while, they may have also been penalised for this.
We have noticed the ranks for their top keywords fluctuating a lot, top 10 to top 30 back to top 5 then top 20 etc etc. but the old domains are showing too in the results.
Does the old domain not dissapear out of the rankings eventually.
Shane
-"Does the old domain not dissapear out of the rankings eventually."
-"will the other 2 not fade out of the rankings eventually now they have the 301 redirects on them"
YES THEY WOULD !
REGARDS,
ASHISH T.
-"will the other 2 not fade out of the rankings eventually now they have the 301 redirects on them"
YES THEY WOULD !
REGARDS,
ASHISH T.
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how long should this transition phase go on for as it is not somethinig I have done before.
Shane
Shane
It should start going down gradually.
Starting from the point Google finds that it's been setup as a 301 redirect only.
Regards,
ASHISH T.
Starting from the point Google finds that it's been setup as a 301 redirect only.
Regards,
ASHISH T.
I would normally use an analytics tool to determine when traffic through the older domains seemed small enough that you could simply remove the page. If you're not seeing that much traffic via the "disposable" domain then worrying about all of this isn't worthwhile.
If this traffic is important and significant, the advice above re: 301 is the right answer, however, if you can live without it:
You could either:
a) move the disposable names to a temporary hosting folder and use robots.txt file to ban all engines (2 days to 2 weeks)
b) simply delete the hosting and wait for googlebot to notice (may take a while)
If this traffic is important and significant, the advice above re: 301 is the right answer, however, if you can live without it:
You could either:
a) move the disposable names to a temporary hosting folder and use robots.txt file to ban all engines (2 days to 2 weeks)
b) simply delete the hosting and wait for googlebot to notice (may take a while)
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They only want to keep one domain now though as there main one, will the other 2 not fade out of the rankings eventually now they have the 301 redirects on them.
Shane