Google finds smugmug domain rather than custom domain

Craig Ridley

Not sure if I have something wrong in my custom domain setup as google lists my ridley.smugmug.com domain name at the top of its ranking rather than www.craigridley.com (further down its search results it finds a sub gallery under the custom domain name so it can find it).

Is there anything I can do so goodle finds and directs people to www.craigridley.com rather than ridley.smugmug.com?

Andy

Yes. http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Maximize+Search+Engine+Findability

Do these, and wait. SmugMug's pagerank is far higher than your custom domain, so it's natural to have those appear higher at first.

Craig Ridley

Andy wrote:

Yes. http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Maximize+Search+Engine+Findability

Do these, and wait. SmugMug's pagerank is far higher than your custom domain, so it's natural to have those appear higher at first.

Thanks Andy. I have most of those in place so I will review once more and then sit tight and wait.

Google used to rank my custom domain higher than the smugmug domain so I guess it just depends what day of the week it is.