icarus - 11:47 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

I'm having a similar problem to tomapple.

I have a very well established site, rankings were fine; noticed I had [site.com...] and [site.com...] home pages listed in Google.

I set up a 301 to redirect http:// to [www...] on Nov. 6. I used some code in another thread on Jagger as I was under the impression this "double" listing could indicate trouble ahead if I didn't fix it.

The redirect is working fine, correct header responses etc, but I'm now noticing:

link:site.com

is returning 0

wheras

link:www.site.com

returns the usual number of backlinks.

Added to this, when I search for my site name (not domain), I'm presented with my DMOZ title on the link and the DMOZ description, then one of my sub-pages underneath that (with correct page title and description).

If I search on my domain name, I only get the http:// listing - no fresh tag either. This is happening on most DC's.

Rankings have plummeted for most terms. For those of you who've done this type of redirect before, should I reverse the htaccess fix, or is this normal behavior and I should just wait it out? Is it the same sort of wait as on a usual single page redirect?

I've performed 301's before for single pages, but this is a different scenario, behaving totally differently and I'm a little concerned. I wasn't expecting my [site.com...] listing to get buried/virtually disappear, just to get rid of the [site.com...] listing. Any advice would be appreciated.

BTW, Googlebot is very active on the site at the moment.