Google Reindexed my site all pages instead of 301 redirects

[fsmobilez]

Hi

My site was indexed in google with www and without www so i put a command in .httaccess of cpanel for permanent redirect to www and also set the preferred domain in google webmaster tools and all pages were
removing slowly and yesterday the urls with www were dropped to "62" but today when i checked it reached again to "14600" .

Will u plz tell me why it happened and how to get rid of it u can check by ur own.

the commands which i type in google and results showing are as follow

-www site:example.com
Results 1 - 10 of about 14,600

site:example.com
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,510

Help will be highly apprecieated.

Thanks a bunch

[edited by: tedster at 4:22 pm (utc) on Oct. 23, 2008]
[edit reason] fix formatting [/edit]

[tedster]

I'd make 100% sure that the permanent redirect is actually working as you intended - test it in a browser and view the http headers that your server returns for a 301 status. If your server is working properly, then Google data is currently buggy for yuour site and it will get sorted out again.

[fsmobilez]

Permanent redirect is 100% working ok

the problem is that google is dropping the urls when i searched by this term

site:example.com

and before the urls were dropping when i search by this term but now it jumped back to origianl which was before 301 redirects

-www site:example.com

U r saying it will be bug so can i report it any where or how long should i wait to get this bug fixed.

Im very much worried

bcoz it is showing urls with out www and i want to submit a sitemap with www urls so i doubt if i submit a sitemap with www will google consider those as duplicate urls

also remember set prefrence as www is done by 301 as wel as google webmaster tools.

[Marcia]

You need to use a different special operator:

inurl:example.com

or

inurl:www.example.com

[google.com...]

[g1smd]

site:domain.com

-- shows all.

site:www.domain.com

-- shows only www.

site:domain.com [b]-[/b]inurl:www

-- shows only non-www.

[Receptional Andy]

Strictly speaking, [site:example.com -site:www.example.com] is the syntax to find all subdomains rather than www - of course, the way the indexes work for advanced searches means there's benefit from using a number of different approaches as you can often uncover additional data.

[fsmobilez]

i searched for this term

site:example.com -site:www.example.com

and

site:example.com -inurl:www

but it is showing 14600 pages of my sites which were removed by google in two to three months

as i already mentioned that i set www prefrence in webmaster tools as well as 100%ok redirect (301)

than how can google recrawl all that pages. what to do now as non www urls again in google.

[g1smd]

Those pages are (probably) now in the Supplemental index, and no longer treated as being duplicates. Google will selectively show them in SERPs for anything up to a year, and so those listings can still bring you traffic. The redirect on-your-site delivers the visitor to the correct URL for the content. As long as the redirect is working properly, and really does return a 301 status code in the HTTP header (check it using the Live HTTP Headers extension for Mozilla Firefox) there is nothing further that you need to do here.

[fsmobilez]

Well the problem is that google recrawls the pages which are now not live means they are 404 pages, and when i click on cached pages which are still alive google show some thing like this

Your search - cache:ia2M4PxUQpEJ:example.com/demo -www site:example.com - did not match any documents

means no cache and google showing pages which it crawled in august.

Going in furthure detail google dropped all non www pages almost last week and i was very happy bcoz all duplicate urls were removed but again it crawled them and showing 14600 pages with non www urls

and today it dropped 100 urls again and now shwoing 14500 non www urls what is this google will drop all non www urls and when they will removed google will crawl them again and drop again or what >>?

What is google doing with me.?

[tedster]

It sounds like your server is still returning content and 200 OK status for the no-www urls. The WMT preference is only part of the picture, especially if your server is doing something else.

[fsmobilez]

Well i tried the url in firefox and typed url of my site

example.com

and it was redirected to

www.example.com

how can i confirm that 301 code is working 100% ok

as fas as i know it is working 100% ok

[g1smd]

<added>You posted while I was typing</added>

In one place you say the pages return 404 and in another you say they return 301.

Use Live HTTP Headers for Mozilla Fifrefox to find out what they really return.

[fsmobilez]

Im saying if there are totally 14600 pages

in it 5000 pages are returned to 404 while for others i have added 301.

[fsmobilez]

still google not removing my bugs pages which it added

i have thought of a an idea and want to know its negative effects

i have direcotry in which there are all post let say its names is :articles: if i add in robots and remove it using gooogle wmt so all the pages except main page will be removed and if after that i add them again using sitemap will google add the pages again

and will it effect the ranking of the pages.

[tedster]

I wouldn't suggest playing around like that.

If you have verified that your 301 redireects are technically correct, then be patient. Google has been quite crazy recently (see Google.com SERP Changes - November 2008 [webmasterworld.com]) and the site: operator results have been all over the place.