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[zephyrus]

Hi everyone,

A few months ago we changed our domain from androphile.org to gay-art-history.org. I used 301 redirects to redirect every page to the corresponding page on the new site. For the homepage I redirected the index.html file to gay-art-histor.org/ (not to the index.html).

The lower level pages place very high when you search relevant keywords on Google, but the homepage, which used to come up in the 1-2 slot for "gay history" and "gay love," doesn't appear at all for those keywords. In Google's Webmaster Tools it lists 7,000 links to the homepage, says it's our highest ranked page and that our top 3 keywords are love, gay, and history. So we should have retained our place.

NOTED GLITCH: When you search “site:gay-art-history.org,” the root is not the first listing as it should be, but is on page 27.

Also, the site does come up for a "gay history” search, but on page 14 somewhere and the page that appears is not our homepage, but an insignificant "writers wanted" page that has little content and no links to it. It's just a paragraph listing a job. So something is definitely wrong there.

As far as PR goes, it used to be 5, now every page is 0. But this only seems to have affected the homepage, since all the other pages place in the 1-5 slots for relevant searches.

Does anyone know why this might be happening? Why our homepage isn’t the first listing when you do a “site:url” search and how to correct it?

thanks for your time and help!