http://disqus.com/by/andrewbredow/enTue, 11 Aug 2009 21:23:11 -0000http://www.nilobject.com/2009/08/11/The-Joys-of-SEO.html#comment-14689779<p>Good post Jon, those are some nice sites. The quanitity of people trying to game the system has definitely increased dramatically, making it more difficult for the average web user to appear high in search rankings.</p><p>Most sites who have issues with SEO are struggling either from technical difficulties (e.g. bad sitemaps, poor URL structures, or duplicate content across multiple domains) or they are just not offering unique content. The latter case causes many to resort to scam methods like link building to get higher rankings, thereby perpetuating the cycle.</p><p>In your latter example, did you have a 301 redirect from all pages on the original site to the new domain? I recently moved a site and most of my links in Google were updated within about 24 hours.</p>Andrew BredowTue, 11 Aug 2009 21:23:11 -0000