301 Redirect Cached By Google

301 Cache Preventing Index of site

[cabbagehead]

I bought a used domain 1.5 years ago. I launched a new site in May and realized the site was not being indexed.

Apparently the previous owners of the domain did a 301 redirect from my domain to their main site as evidenced by archive.org. Google is *still* showing the page they redirected to as the cache of my site and consequently Google is not attempting to follow any of the true links to my pages ...because it's not really looking at my own HTML but rather the page originally 301 redirected to. This is making it impossible to get indexed into the SERPs for Google.

Has anyone run into this previously? Does anyone know how to get Google to correct the problem?

[Marcia]

Redirection problems can be persistent. Is your site on a dedicated IP?

[cabbagehead]

Yep. Dedicated IP. I also had a "coming soon" page on the domain with it's own dedicated IP for almost a full year between the time I purchased the URL and the time I launched the new site. Persistent may be an understatement. ;-)

Do you know of any way to resolve the issue?

I've written to Google asking them to remove my site from Cache and I've even put a noArchive tag in my html indicating not to cache the site. My hope was this would force the site form cache therey resetting it - which I hoped would result in a fresh index/cache of the site once the meta tag is removed. Is this a reasonable approach?

Thanks.
Neal