-
Site with 2 domains
Posted by on May 11, 2021 at 2:15 pmAt the beginning of the year I got a new client. His site is dedicated to a NYC jazz pianist Gil Coggins. One of the things my client expressed was he wanted the site to “show up in Google searches when searching for Gil Coggins”, which wasn’t the case then and still isn’t the case now.
In my opinion there’s more than enough mention of “Gil Coggins” throughout the site. However, the domain name is so obscure, I suggested also registering GilCoggins.com (which he did) and using that as the main domain.
So now the site is hosted at GilCoggins.com, and Vassavussa.com redirects to GilCoggins.com.
I’ve done all kinds of other SEO related things (meta tags, updated the wikipedia page and other jazz sites with links to this website) but still it shows up many pages down in Google searches.
I get that a handful of sites (wikipedia, Discogs.com, AllMusic.com, AllAboutJazz.com) warrant a higher ranking than my client’s site, but there seem to be all kinds of obscure sites ranking above GilCoggins.com when searching google for “Gil Coggins”.
Am I missing something? Does it just take more time? Did the double domain issue screw things up?
Thanks for your pointers!
-
2 Replies
-
Yeah you lost your progress by switching to a new domain. Will take a while to properly attribute the mentions from the old domain to the new one.
Maybe build more links to speed it up. -
I just searched you on Google Discovery and your page is 7th. Not bad! For a website like yours, I see potential in creating individual pages with written commentary around a SoundCloud file, extant photos, etc. Multimedia rich pages tend to rank better than straight pages of content. You should start with the bio page. ?
Log in to reply.