pageoneresults - 2:39 pm on Jan 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

Can you describe the situation with respect to incoming links to the old and new domains?

jd, you bring up a good point and it is the last thing on my list of variables that would have affected this.

Yes, there were a few links to the new domain, not many though. There are plenty of links to the old domain. We have been slowly getting those updated as the weeks go by. It is a very difficult task in this instance due to the nature of the subject. There are quite a few personal pages with inbounds.

I'm wondering if you got new backlinks to the new domain, and how many of the old backlinks were updated to point to the new domain, as these factors may have some bearing on the indexing situation.

Oh, no problems with indexing, the site was indexed within 48 hours after launch. Within 30 days Google had grabbed most, if not all of the URIs available for indexing.

We are still waiting for both the ODP and Yahoo! to update their directories with the new URI. The change requests were sent in October. I have a funny feeling that once those change, things may come around a bit.

Still, you would think that with using the 301 that there would be some transferrence of credit from the old URI to the new URI. I do believe there was as the site obtained PR at the beginning of January at the same time the old URI was dropped and the new one appeared consistently.

P.S. When I first posted this topic, I was sure it was going to take off. It sat for a bit which worried me. Now that I see others are having similar issues, it helps me in accepting that it is not me, but them (the search engines)! ;)