AOL UK blues

[webgeneral]

All my AOL UK positions have gone since the switch to Google. Strange as I have positions in Google and Google UK for the same keywords. My question is why aren't the Google positions showing up in AOL UK?

[Shakil]

Ha sthis just happened VERY recently, or when the actual changeover took place a few months ago.

Shak

[webgeneral]

This month

[engine]

FYI - [webmasterworld.com...]

Perhaps you've just got a site that's appeared in the G SERPS?

[markd]

I've been suffering this fate ever since the switch over.

What I can't work out is for a particular site (hosted in UK, with a .com domain) I have straight No.1's in Google.com but I'm nowhere in the results being supplied by Google to AOL.co.uk.

The AOL/Google results look almost identical to result which were appearing on Google.com about 6 months ago!

I am hesitant to take any proactive action in case I upset the Google.com results - any suggestions would be very welcome :)

[glengara]

According to this thread, unlike G, AOl ignores hosting location.
[webmasterworld.com...]

[webgeneral]

MarkD seems to have experienced the same. Glengara thanks for the links, but they don't really answer my question and my domains are co.uk domains so that isn't the reason why they were dropped. It seems AOL.co.uk have been filtering the Google database and have filtered my pages out.

[Tony_Perry]

AOL are filtering the results for some reason. I have many clients who have suffered as a result. Some industries seem to be more affected than others. This produces some interesting search results! Whatever it is they are doing isnt working and I think they will probably stop filtering, or change the process very soon. In terms of customer use, Google is very much the king and I wouldnt mess with my optimisation if you already have good positions with them!
Tony Perry

[markd]

Before my site was listed highly in Google.com we had about 5 months of really strange pages being returned. Stuff like navigation bars, old news releases etc.

After this period of time, Google.com then listed and ranked the pages we were hoping for - good, relevant returns for specific keyphrases.

Now the 'version' of AOL/Google are returning the same pages that were listed by Google.com originally.

This led me to wonder if AOL are using an 'old' Google database?

As Google is so hypersensitive to any kind of intervention, we are going to sit tight on AOL and see if we start getting some more sensible and relevant ranks against keyphrases over the next 3 months.

With Google, I think that sitting tight and looking at your site structure and links are the only realistic options.

One of the reasons why I find Google's current dominance a bit worrying.