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- Mar 31, 2005
This is an interesting observation.
I purchased through sedo the domain name casinos-online.co.uk at the end of October, beginning of November. As soon as the domain transferred to me, I did a 301 redirect to my site OnlineCasinoReviewer.com
All well and good.
However this is where it gets interesting. On the 7th December, the site was good to go live, so I removed the 301 redirect to OCR. Now bear in mind the domain casinos-online.co.uk, had never been a live site, indeed it was owned by a domain squatter since being regisitered back in 2004. A Harley Street surgeon no less
Anyhow, redirect removed and site launched initially with over 100 pages and growing everyday. In addition I obtained some very good backlinks to the site (Thanks Bryan ) as well as pointing links from my network at it.
Yet google still thinks Casinos-online.co.uk is being redirected to OCR.
It appears all the links I have obtained in google's eyes are crediting OCR LOL.
Now my own opinion was to wait this out. But I contacted a very good and well informed SEO in Jason Duke from Strange Logic ( Jason has been on countless SEO panels at affiliate conferences ), to get a much needed second opinion.
Jason has at least put my mind at rest, when he came back and said:
So I am going to wait this out. I have also contacted google via webmaster tools.
But the lesson here is, use 301 redirects at your peril. Hopefully I will soon get an xmas present from google and this issue will be resolved.
Will keep you posted when that happens in this thread.
I purchased through sedo the domain name casinos-online.co.uk at the end of October, beginning of November. As soon as the domain transferred to me, I did a 301 redirect to my site OnlineCasinoReviewer.com
All well and good.
However this is where it gets interesting. On the 7th December, the site was good to go live, so I removed the 301 redirect to OCR. Now bear in mind the domain casinos-online.co.uk, had never been a live site, indeed it was owned by a domain squatter since being regisitered back in 2004. A Harley Street surgeon no less
Anyhow, redirect removed and site launched initially with over 100 pages and growing everyday. In addition I obtained some very good backlinks to the site (Thanks Bryan ) as well as pointing links from my network at it.
Yet google still thinks Casinos-online.co.uk is being redirected to OCR.
It appears all the links I have obtained in google's eyes are crediting OCR LOL.
Now my own opinion was to wait this out. But I contacted a very good and well informed SEO in Jason Duke from Strange Logic ( Jason has been on countless SEO panels at affiliate conferences ), to get a much needed second opinion.
Jason has at least put my mind at rest, when he came back and said:
Google is a nightmare with redirects, duplicate content, canonical domains etc. Quite simply time solves things
So I am going to wait this out. I have also contacted google via webmaster tools.
But the lesson here is, use 301 redirects at your peril. Hopefully I will soon get an xmas present from google and this issue will be resolved.
Will keep you posted when that happens in this thread.