cjtripnewton - 6:52 pm on Oct 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

"There's a 301 redirected second URL that was put on over a year ago that is, as we speak, still showing up right now."

Marcia, if you have pages from a 301'd url showing up on Google, are they specific file names that don't exist on the new site?

I.e., did you 301 [oldurl.com...] to [newurl.com...] but miss redirecting [oldurl.com...] and don't have a corresponding [newurl.com...]

Or, are you saying you have the oldurl.com files showing up on something other than Google?

Alltheweb, Teoma, and Inktomi don't respond to 301's the way Google does. For Alltheweb, Teoma, and Inktomi, your best bet is to hard code the full url into every link on the site, replacing <a href="../file3.html"> with <a href="http://www.newurl.com/file3.html"> for every intersite link.

After a year or so, Alltheweb, Teoma, and Inktomi will get the message and gradually remove oldurl.com from their databases. Even that method isn't 100% though. After about 6 months, the best bet is to 404 the oldurl.com site so that Alltheweb, Teoma, and Inktomi will kill the thing if you really don't want it around. I have a url that is 8 years old now and still occassionaly gets reindexed because of old links on college sites that are impossible to update. At least by coding in full url links, you can limit the indexing to the pages which have inbound links.