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I started with a free (Geocities) site and later moved my site to a different ISP. The original site is still in place with just a redirect message/hyperlink and <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> in the head. Indeed, I want it to stay there, quietly in the background, to pick up those who have its address.
Google finds my new address and gets deeper and deeper into the site, performing well for a few days. Then it drops it completely - but the Geocities site keeps getting found and the text shown beneath the listing is not that currently on the site (ie just a redirect) but the original text, which no longer exists.
After a day or so, the cycle repeats itself, and it's driving me nuts.
There are a few links still to the old Geocities site, but very many more to the new one.
Please, can someone help me?
If you do not have .htaccess control, which I doubt you do on a free server, you can use a meta refresh.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=ht*p://www.new.com/new.htm">
I would put that BEFORE the "robots" tag or just remove the robbots tag altogether.
Also, be patient because Google is a bit slow. It could take up to 3 months. While you are waiting all requests for the old site are automatically redirected to the new site.
Is this perhaps normal behaviour on Google's part, and impatience on mine?
>>Is this perhaps normal behaviour on Google's part, and impatience on mine?
That depends upon how long ago you moved the site.
Also, be sure to put the refreshes on ALL of your old pages and point them to their counterparts on the new site.
