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Six months of invisibility

The dreaded newbie posts...

         

Peter_R

5:58 pm on Dec 2, 2002 (gmt 0)



Here's my story...

Once upon a time I had three domain names pointing to the same server space. They were completely unrelated sites and I used a script to send the innocent visitor to the appropriate site's sub folder. (I just found it easier to manage my three sites on one server. Bad baaad mistake folks!)

Google didn't like that very much and lumped all the sites together in the SERPs. Result: Chaos and Confusion. So six months ago, I switched the most important site to a new host. The DNS changed, the physical site location changed, and I sat back to wait for Google to pick up the site's brand new independent IP.

Six months later, I'm still waiting...

Google still thinks that all three URLs point to the same IP. Result: my most important site has now vanished into the ether. I've been forced to duplicate half of it on the old server just to get it mentioned in the SERPs. :(

Before you ask, the old site has a decent PR and the strangely invisible new one has many quality incoming links. So why is Google giving me the HG Wells treatment? Is my new server blacklisted? Is there a prob with my DNS?

Waaahhhhh! Someone help me!

;-Peter

Ajack

10:53 pm on Dec 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



So that you do not feel alone, here is what happened to me:

I had website.com and web-site.com pointing to the same site, with only website.com in Google, nice rankings.

One fine day, Googlebot found web-site.com and decided that there was some duplication, but instead of dropping web-site.com, they dropped website.com with all the nice PRs...

I have tried to permantly redirect web-site.com to website.com and even to kill web-site.com, but nothing works, and today I only have 2 pages indexed with 0 PR...

It's been 6 month as well..

I wish that their spider was able to properly process the permanant redirection as they say if should.

Ajack