Domain Redirection problem

301 redirection

[vaniaul]

Hi Everyone!

Kindly help me with the problem described below:

I had redirected my old domain i.e. [example.com...] to [example.net...] using 301 Permanent Redirect w.e.f 10 April'2004. But the problem is that Google is still listing my old domain i.e. [example.com...] instead of [example.net....]

Can you please help me to know what should I do to list the new domain in Google [example.net...] ASAP. Being an experienced person, I know you can help me in best way on this. Please let me know of your response, so that I take the necessary steps. I'll be really obliged if you can just have a look at my site to ensure that redirection is working the correct way.

Regards and Thanks
Vani

[edited by: msgraph at 1:54 pm (utc) on April 28, 2004]
[edit reason] changed urls to example.tld [/edit]

[skipfactor]

Give it a few more weeks. With Yahoo, give it a year.

Use the header check to be sure you have it right:

[searchengineworld.com...]

[jchance]

I agree totally with skipfactor.

You have probably already done this, but if not double check the server response of the old domain using a server response checking tool. (There is one in the tools section of this site that is really good)

I have seem many people (myself included) who thought they were 301 redirecting but once they checked the server response via a tool realized otherwise.

[chengfu]

I've had this problem for over a year with Google on a friend's website.
As he is very desperate to get rid of the old domain in the google results, I'm currently trying to send a 410 instead of 301 to get the old domain out of the index.

[GoogleGuy]

Sometimes it can take a little while (a few weeks). I'd check the actual headers in the mean time to verify that you're serving up a permanent (301) redirect.

chengfu, why not serve up a 404? I know those work pretty well to eventually remove pages from our index. I hadn't heard of a 410 status code..

[chengfu]

410 means that the page has moved somewhere else but no redirect is known. I found this to be the most correct answer (as 301 didn't seem to work).

Today the first pages of the correct domain are in the index, so it seems to work fine.