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301 redirect to new site works but Google gives SR to both sites

supplemental results even after 3 months

         

Lorel

5:01 pm on Jan 15, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I have a client that used to have one domain partked and pointed to another which was active. They decided to make both domains active and separate websites. However they moved a lot of the files from the active domain to the "new" now unparked domain.

I set up redirects as follows 3 months ago:

RewriteRule ^oldpage\.htm$ [NewDomain.com...] [R=301,L]

These redirects work when I search for [OldDomain.com...] and I'm taken to the new website [NewDomain.com...]

However Google has both sites listed as Supplemental Results for this page (and several other pages with the same problem).

Is there someting I'm doing wrong or is Google just lax in removing the SR from the Index?

jdMorgan

5:29 pm on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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New domain sandbox effect...

Don't allow your clients to play games with domains... One site, one domain -- only. The SE's see promotion and use of multiple domains pointing to the same content as spamming the index. That plus the pages moving around probably has them thoroughly confused.

Time will tell.

Jim

Lorel

5:57 pm on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

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One site was for their consulting business and the other for the books they sell. They wanted them separate and I warned them it may mess things up but they insisted. Hopefully google will get it all straightened out soon.