Google ignoring 18 month old 301 redirect

[realmaverick]

I have a subdomain with a PR3 that I 301 redirected 18 months ago. The redirect works but google won't honour it.

The subdomain is still listed in te results and PR checkers still report PR3.

Not sure what could be the deal here. Any ideas on how I could get Google to take notice of it?

Cheers

[TheMadScientist]

Is the subdomain root redirected to a directory?

IOW Does: subdomain.example.com

Redirect to: example.com
OR to: example.com/some-dir/

If it's the second, I doubt if you will get them to remove it without changing it. For some reason when you redirect a domain root to a deeper level than the root on another domain (or subdomain) they show the pre-redirect location, not the actual destination.

To get it corrected you'll probably have to change the redirect to go to example.com/ or anothersubdomain.example.com/ rather than to the deeper level of some.example.com/some-directory/.

[realmaverick]

Thanks TMS. Yesterday when I posted this, I'd just checked Google randomly via my iPhone and noticed the 301 hadn't been honoured and then posted here. When I got to the PC, I decided it was time for some detective work.

It turns out the WP install on the sub.site.com had an option to hide it from the search engines checked and thus a meta noindex nofollow tag in the head. Quite unbelievably stupid.

I remedied it and already Google has indexed the new pages.

FWIW the 301 is going from sub.site.com to www.site.com/dir