301 redirect - a report

indexed pages in G after 301 redirect

[Lipik]

For years I had a website hosted on one domain as a subdirectory (www.example.org/mysite/). (example.org was also one of my domains)
I had a domain name www.mysite.org wich I redirected to www.example.org/mysite/
For over 7 years I used this www.mysite.org as url to let people link to my domain, so there was no problem to let everybody now to change their links.
Last month I finally took the step to switch to a separate hosting for www.mysite.org.
I put a 301 redirect in the .htaccess file on www.example.com and waited.
It was a relief to see that Google switcht all old url's to the new ones without big probles and very fast.

This is the result for a "site:www.mysite.org" and "site:www.mysite.org/mysite/" (first=new domain; last=old domain)
for one month. Originally there where 369 pages indexed.
(notice that I always used the www-version, the non-www-version has different results).
date / new domain / old domain
21/09/07 0 369
23/09/07 10 368
24/09/07 20 357
25/09/07 47 342
26/09/07 132 319
27/09/07 147 298
28/09/07 150 269
29/09/07 230 245
30/09/07 250 195
01/10/07 256 209
02/10/07 274 192
03/10/07 339 184
04/10/07 340 137
05/10/07 351 117
06/10/07 - -
07/10/07 - -
08/10/07 345 104
09/10/07 338 105
10/10/07 327 90
11/10/07 327 89
12/10/07 319 78
13/10/07 329 75
14/10/07 327 78
15/10/07 317 81
16/10/07 330 72
17/10/07 330 67
18/10/07 336 61
19/10/07 - -
20/10/07 340 50
21/10/07 342 58

[Robert Charlton]

Lipik - Thanks for your report. One comment suggests you may have some additional work to do...

My emphasis...

(notice that I always used the www-version, the non-www-version has different results)

If you're considering the www version to be the main version of your site, then you've also got to redirect the non-www version to the www version.

Take a look in the Hot Topics section, which is pinned to the top of the Google Search forum's index page, and read this thread....

Why "www" & "no-www" Are Different
the canonical duplicate issue
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