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Our main site, however, was:
Word1Word2.com without a hyphen. The content was mirrored onto the hyphenated domain, but pretty much all the links on the site were without the hyphen (so people who came on the hyphenated domain be moved over to the non hyphenated domain).
Since the hyphenated domain has been around for years, pretty much all the search engines (primarily google) sent traffic to it. When we did a "backwards link" in google - it recognized that the domain with and without the hyphen were the same (which was a good thing – we didn’t want to get a duplicate content penalty).
It looks like our ISP inadvertently began forwarding traffic from our hyphen to the non-hyphen (when a user types in Word1-Word2.com it changes to Word1Word2.com).
We have also now dropped significantly from our main search keywords - even though we are showing the same pagerank (that’s how I figured out the forwarding on the domain name).
Could it be that we lost our longevity when the forward began? If we wait a few days do you think google will realize that the non-hyphenated domain is the same and that all of our current links out there all end up on the same site? Or, should I scramble to have the ISP put it back the way it was?
Hope I explained it well enough.
Thanks,
Chris
I'm not really sure i understand your problem description, so i won't even try guessing, but normally domain changes takes around three weeks to get fully propagated in the Google index. They can propagate on the rest of the internet in a few days.
/claus
