301 redirection doesn't work - 6 months

[konrad]

Hi,

I have a website like mydomain.com and I have a subbomain like mydomain.com/subservice

6 months ago I decided to move my mydomain.com/subservice its own domain, like subservice.com.

Obviously, I made a 301 redirection from the previous subdomain to the new serice.

It was 6 months ago - the problem is, google doesn't seem to catch the redirection. It did about a few houndreds of pages, but then it stopped.

The problem isn't about keeping google up to date about the new domain. The thing is, that I really don't want google to keep caches about the previous domain.

So, the question is: is there any way, via the google webmaster tools or anything like that, that I can tell google to remove mydomain.com/subservice folder from the cache, but NOT to remove mydomain.com ?

[tedster]

Six months is a long time - have you checked that the server is sending a 301 status in the http header? What you are describing sounds more like a302 status. Although lots of things about domains and subdomains in Google have been flaky the past few weeks, that's only weeks and not months.

[leadegroot]

in WMT Site configuration > Crawler access > Remove URL should let you do this.
Technically it wants a 404 - but surely a 301 would cover it?

I wouldn't recommend this for a normal situation, but if you've given them 6 months - well!

[konrad]

Thank you.
Yes, I'm sure I'm sending the 301 redirection.
@leadegroot - I have about 500 pages to remove, and it doesn't look like this tool enables me to enter regular expression.

[leadegroot]

No, but it does let you do an entire subfolder and thats what you mentioned? (IIRC its the last one in the drop down)

[konrad]

Ok, if this will work on an entire subfolder, then I'll try it. Thanks!