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[torakai]

Hello everyone,

Thanks Jill for a fantastic forum, been lurking around for a while soaking up all this fantastic help and info.

I am optimising a site for my company that has a url which they bought in March, however in the engines SERP's its their old url which keeps showing up for certain keywords and now they want the new url to show up.

There are many different url's that the company had previously bought and pointed the website to, there are no redirects just many url's pointing to the one site.

So my question is without getting rid of the old url how do i improve the ranking of the new url when both url's use the same website ?

aarrgghh

thanks in advance

Sharon

[Farhan]

Additionally, you can do a backlink check on Google and/or Alltheweb and contact all websites linking to the old domain to update their link with the new address.

[toprank]

We've had to do the same thing. Our parent company name changed a while back and so the domain name did too. It's very important to contact all sites linking to the unwanted domains and update them with the correct url or the search engines will continue to cache the old domains in search results.

[ZirkMan]

We've had to do the same thing. Our parent company name changed a while back and so the domain name did too. It's very important to contact all sites linking to the unwanted domains and update them with the correct url or the search engines  will continue to cache the old domains in search results.

Well, it doesn't matter when you do a permanent redirect. Does it?

[Scottie]

Welcome Zirkman!

I believe eventually the SE's will update to the new domain but it's a good idea to try to get the incorrect links changed. It's a good opportunity to possibly get the link text changed as well.

[ZirkMan]

Well, for that reason it is a good excuse

And, Hi this is a forum!

So reffering link text matters? Let's say I have a site about crocodile skin called croco. It is better when am reffered as [link] Croco - crocodile skin [/link] then just plain [link] Croco [/link] ? Good to know ..

Thanks again!

[Scottie]

Yes- the text in the referring link matters very much. Try to get your keywords in there if you can.

[Jill]

Welcome, Zirkman!

Glad you like the forum.

Jill