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liguoroa

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Topic starter 14/03/2013 1:03 pm

Dear All,

If I search the string "www.xxxxx.it" using google, the first row in the results
is related to the site "www.yyyyy.it".

xxxxx and yyyyy are completely differents words, and there are no metadata contained in the
site www.yyyyy.it that could bring to "www.xxxxx.it". (As I have already mentioned in the
post "Modifying the results order in a Google search")

The site "www.xxxxx.it" doesn't exists anymore (it is no more registered in Italian ccTLD).
In these days, I discovered that the site "www.xxxxx.it" had been redirected to "www.yyyyy.it"
for about 10 days 7 months ago.

Do you think this redirection could influence the actual search results?

Best Regards,
Andrea Liguoro

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jaclaz

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14/03/2013 3:40 pm

In these days, I discovered that the site "www.xxxxx.it" had been redirected to "www.yyyyy.it"
for about 10 days 7 months ago.

What do you mean by "redirected to"?

Do you mean that if you typed in a browser "www.xxxxx.it" you actually "landed" on the site "www.xxxxx.it" AND the page on that address automatically redirected the browser making it "land" on "www.yyyyy.it"?

Or that if you typed in a browser "www.xxxxx.it" you actually "landed" on the site " "www.yyyyy.it"?

Do you think this redirection could influence the actual search results?

Sure.
Pigeons are very reactive to redirection wink
http//www.google.it/technology/pigeonrank.html

More seriously, the web is called a "web" because it is actually made like a web and what search engine bots do is to try and go down all paths and links, if there was a link (of *any* kind) between "www.xxxxx.it" and "www.yyyyy.it", it is possible that it "influenced" a ranking in a search result, it is not "exact science", it is more (but not entirely so) "fuzzy logic".

jaclaz

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