Is Google choking on my re-direct?

[webpro00801]

I used to be hosted on a shared server - one of the original web hosting start ups in CA which has since been bought out by a large company. Some time ago, I put in an htaccess redirect in the following syntax:

RedirectPermanent /my_old_account_name [my_URL.com...]

Is this the wrong way to do this? I have been having major problems with my site in Google, and worse yet, when searching for my domain name, I am often finding:

my_old_webhost.com

Without my user name - it definitely seems my re-direct has confused Google. What should I do?

Thanks -

[g1smd]

The old domain will continue to show as a Supplemental Result for one year after the redirect is put in place. That is normal.

You need a site-wide 301 redirect, one that preserves the full requested folder and file path in the redirect.

See also: [webmasterworld.com...]

[webpro00801]

This redirect does - if you request

old_host.com/my_user_name/a_directory/certain_page.html

you do get

my_real_site.com/a_directory/certain_page.html