wtf google?
 

I bought an expired domain a few months back and put a site on it.

It has been crawled by google and some of it is indexed, but when I do a google search on mydomain.com a different .com site comes up first result, my site is second....

when I do a google search on info:mydomain.com only the different .com site comes up, and the choice where it says "Show google's cache of mydomain.com" it leads to a cache of the different .com site


obviously the previous domain owner had done a redirect, but what is google's excuse for keeping that info: wrong when I have had the domain running with no redirect for a couple of months and google has spidered me and indexed me???

The domain is an old one but is not getting any help in the rankings it seems, I almost wonder if a brand new domain might get better treatment from google in this situation??

:321GFYgoogle

fuck google

Gotta love the juggernaut

The domain algorithms are offset

Here's the answer...

Google has a webmaster area. Sorry I don't know the url right off the top of my head. Once in there, you can tell Google that other domains are the same as the "main" domain and if someone searches, always give out the "main" domain.

The previous owner probably did this.

My guess is that you can tell Google that its your domain (to prove it they make you put some funny named file in your root and if they can see it, they believe you), and then they will unlink it from the other owner.

This is only a guess.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

resubmit it and monitor it using Google's Webmaster Tools

Make Google your friend !!!

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