Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
if you search our company name, we are listed, but the url that is displayed has not been in use for around 18 months after our move to an alternative e-commerce provider.
the same happens when you search for our title.
we have a link back to our home page on every page and in the site map.
this happened about 1 month ago.
is anyone else experience this? or does anyone have any ideas of how to get this page listed agin, maybe a high quality external link to our home page.
many thanks
...has not been in use for around 18 months
Check on how those old urls are actually handled in the http server header. If you are returning a 200 OK, then those pages will stay in the index, no matter what content you are serving for them. And if many old urls return a 200, and all show the same page, then you are showing a lot of duplicate content to Google. Old urls should usually redirect with a 301 [permanent redirect] or show a 404 [not found] or a 410 [gone]
This is a condition I've seen many times with "custom" error pages and naively set up redirects, so it's worth a check. The syptoms you describe would fit this scenario.
