IIS Redirects not indexed.

[jason76]

I recently deployed new content and new pages to one of my websites. All the file names changed. Where relevant I set up IIS permanent redirects from old outdated pages to their current counterparts.

Google has since come through and respidered my site. The redirected pages have not been indexed. Without exception every other page, including the new pages, has been indexed.

Why haven't the redirected pages been indexed yet? The redirects are working. I thought the redirects would tell the spider to drop the old pages and index the new pages. I feel as if I hadn't set up the redirects at all Google would have indexed every page of my site.

[jason76]

The pages still have not been indexed and the Google spider has returned. The redirected pages haven't been indexed by Yahoo or MSN either. Without exception every new page that doesn't have a redirection pointing to it has been indexed by all three engines. The pages with a redirection pointing to them are not being spidered. I thought the whole idea of the redirect was to instruct the spider to drop the old page and index the new one. It doesn't appear to be working at all.

I set up the redirects as follows:
I left all the old files on the site and set up a 301 redirect on each one individually using iis manager. In internet services manager, I right clicked on each file I wanted to redirect. Selected the radio titled "a redirection to a URL". Entered the redirection page, checked "The exact url entered above" and the "A permanent redirection for this resource". Clicked "Apply".

Anybody have any ideas?

[jason76]

Ok, well I just did a site:mysite.com search to check for all the cached pages at my site and discovered that the pages in question have been indexed, but under the old url.

If I check for the cached copy of the old pages it shows the new content along with the OLD URL. It should show the new content and the NEW URL.

For example if I look at the cached copy of:
www.mysite.com/prosp_services.cfm (old obsolete page)

It shows the content for:
www.mysite.com/section/our-services.cfm (new page)

Why is the old page even appearing in the index? Shouldn't the page have been dropped? It should drop the old URL and only dispay the new URL.

[Quadrille]

Start by removing the old pages from the site.

Then TEST the redirects, by trying to visit the old pages directly - or by following Google links.

If the 301s are working, you should immediately be taken to to the new URLs. You need to be sure that is occurring.

You also need Google to give it time to rmeove the old serps entries.

So long as you have removed the physical pages, and the 301s work, the old URLs appearing in the serps reallly do not matter.

Also remove all links from other pages to the 'gone' pages; they perpetuate the ghosts. Check your naviagtion generally, and install a Google sitemap.

And don't worry - so long as the old pages are gone, and your 301s are working, there is no problem that matters to you or your visitors.