Wizard - 9:33 pm on Nov 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

We did what wizard suggested for #2. After placing the 301 we dropped a strong link to the wrong url to be crawled again. So far, we had partial success. The new crawl has made the wrong urls lose their title and description and are now listed as url's only. If what I read here is correct, this is a waiting stage till the link is spider one more time to retrieve title and description. At that time, we expect that the 301 will be complete and google will list just one page with no dupes.

During last months, it took irreasonably long time for Google to do it, but still, you can hardly do it other way. I succeeded with moving some urls with 301 recently, true, but also I have other that still are supplemental. But I find it good that at least a few redirects succeeded to remove supplementals.

I cleaned up 301s on one of my sites as well but a site:mysite.com -www still shows up all the old non-www pages as being in supplemental. And it's because Google is not removing them from supplementals is why I think 301 handling is broken at Google.

I don't deny. In my previous post, I said:

I succeeded to clean up some URLs with 301 last month, so 301 are not completely broken.

I agree there _is_ a problem with 301, but recently, after months of waiting, some of my supplementals have gone, so I turned optimistic.