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Apart from valid entries, I see over 150 phantom entries:
newdomain.com/phantomdir/url1.htm ... /url150.htm
The phantomdir exists at olddomain.com. That directory and files were never copied to newdomain.com.
Background: I am planning to retire olddomain.com and have moved four subdirs to newdomain.com. Their old directories now have an .htaccess 301 redirect to their new locations. Both sites have been crawled 2-3 months ago and are nearly fully indexed.
For a short time (<1 month), the page that is now at newdomain.com/index.htm was at olddomain.com/index.htm because I thought I could just use my old site. There was a domain alias pointing both domains to that root. Then I discovered WW and panicked when I read about domain aliasing to the same server. So I got a new host for newdomain and replanted the original page at olddomain.
So there is a bit of debris yet to clear, e.g. Google cache for newdomain.com/phantomdir shows the page from olddomain.com/phantomdir
Theory: I found that my personal page at newdomain.com has a relative link to the phantomdir, which is now at olddomain.com.
Could that oversight actually result in Google allinurl displaying the link as gospel, then list the 150 individual pages at newdomain? I hope I have explained it clearly.
(Mental note to run xenu.exe on newdomain to find broken links)
- Ash
