More Site Weirdness

September 25, 2005 | 12 Comments

Thanks to my new friend Glen at Dreamhost (have I mentioned how great those guys are?) I’ve been able to dig myself mostly out of the mess I created trying to get my site in order yesterday.

There are a few lingering issues, so please pardon the weirdness as I work them out. If you find anything really broken, please let me know. Sorry for the inconvenience — I realized this week that I had some pretty funky things going on with my domains. I felt it better to just take care of ‘em now.

All should be fixed soon.

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Comments

1. Web Design Ireland said:

We hardly even noticed. The new arrangement is a lot better though.

Posted on September 25, 2005 11:43 AM | #

2. Yannick said:

hehe thanks for letting us know Keith. As WD Ireland said above I didn’t even notice anything was funky. :)

Posted on September 25, 2005 12:58 PM | #

3. Scott said:

I see the path for Asterisk 2 has changed as well…

Posted on September 26, 2005 11:47 AM | #

4. Keith said:

Yeah, I think Google might have penalized me for having a duplacate domain (dkeithrobinson.com) or something. I mean, I can’t see any other reason to explain my drop in traffic.

I still have great SERPS in Yahoo, but Google now places people who simply link to me above me in the results. This despite the fact that I’ve got a higher page rank and a site that’s much more optimized for search (based on their own Web master guidelines) than some sites that beat me.

I’m really pretty baffled by the drop.

Posted on September 26, 2005 12:23 PM | #

5. Benedict Eastaugh said:

This happened to me when I relaunched my site, just before I joined 9rules. I used to be the top result for “Eastaugh”; now I don’t appear until the third page.

Posted on September 26, 2005 02:19 PM | #

6. Keith said:

Update – It seems like Google added some sort of filter to their results. It looks like it’s intended to “downgrade” duplicate content. The problem is that it can’t really tell between a link to a site and duplicate content. At least that’s how it works in practice.

SO, in essence, it could very well place more value on an old, outdated site that has a page that LINKS to a good content page than the good content page itself.

I’m not 100% sure how it works, only that it doesn’t work very well and lots of legit sites are payiing the price. Again, we can ulitmately blame spammers for this.

Posted on September 26, 2005 07:22 PM | #

7. Benedict Eastaugh said:

Yeah, I suspect that part of my problem may be to do with the fact that I have two domains pointing to the same site, ionfish.co.uk and ionfish.hwcommunity.com.

Posted on September 27, 2005 03:42 AM | #

8. Ashton said:

Thanks for letting us know but anyways I didn’t noticed this thing even.

Posted on September 28, 2005 11:34 PM | #

9. Jessica said:

Site looks great. Looked around the site and have not seen anything broken. Dreamhost always makes great products they always will and I to cant say enough good stuff about their team of excellent workers.

Posted on November 13, 2005 12:39 PM | #

10. Ashley Bowers said:

Thanks for letting us know I never noticed any problems though. But like the new set up! The ream at Dreamhost are really great I use them as well and have always loved there service!

Posted on November 23, 2005 01:15 AM | #

11. Britney said:

I think your point about google giving higher results to the older site shows that google algroythm currently is very scrwey.. It’s problems unfortuantely are not well known to the majority of the world using google though…

Posted on December 19, 2005 01:47 AM | #