[ozsubasi]

My apologies, I misunderstood what you were saying. But this does bring me back to my earlier point, how can a url which redirects to page which contains nothing directly concerned with the search term rank at No1 (from any location)?
I reported this to Google yesterday but unfortunately I don't expect any action. I am seeing increasingly that the "big" sites are ranking higher than independents.

[shabbir]

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Originally Posted by ozsubasi

"big" sites are ranking higher than independents.

Yes that is what Google is trying for years. Give value to brands because they are more likely to spam

[ozsubasi]

Yes, a while ago Matt Cutts suggested that brands would be favoured, and that is fine if you are a Google or a Facebook or a Twitter but not if it is a small organization. My brand name is "Ozsubasi" but it is not memorable and I cannot change it so I went for a domain name which expresses what we do. Now I am suffering for that.
But looking beyond that, I would still like opinions please on how a site which redirects to a page not directly concerned with the search term can rank first. Is it simply that it is because it is a major site (in my field)?

[ozsubasi]

I don't know whether it was the result of my report to Google, or because of the many Google updates recently, but when I looked this morning, my site is back at No1 for my main keyword and findaproperty.com has gone from being No1 not to appearing in the first 50 results.

[shabbir]

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