Redirected URL Text in Search Results?

[sunnyujjawal]

Suppose we permanently redirect an inner page .. /abc.hmtl to /xyz.html .. now in google search results..which URL will be preferred for search results.

But that /abc.html is every where hyper-linked in site and /xyz.html is only in .htaccess file.

If i include some keywords in redirected URL /seo-forum/xyz.html .. will Google read and index such type of URL.

[lucy24]

You have to get rid of your internal links to oldname.html. Otherwise g### will keep indexing both versions forever. Normally they understand redirects, at least after a few years of steady 301.* But you're reinforcing the non-redirected URL by keeping it "alive".


* Maybe. I decided that one full twelve-month year was long enough to keep redirecting one set of files, and changed them to 410. The googlebot is now sulking horribly and listing them as 404, which is a brazen lie.

[g1smd]

Link to the final or real URL for the content. Don't link to URLs which then redirect. The redirect is there purely to retain traffic while the old URL is still listed in search results and to cater for visitors following stale links from both other sites and from their bookmarks.

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WMT reports list almost all non-5xx errors as "404 (not found)".

If Google can't be bothered to list the correct response code they should at least change the text to say "4xx error".

Oh wait. They sometimes also list 301, etc, as "404" in WMT too.

[MikeNoLastName]

LOL,
Agree 99% with all of the above advice, from experience. ;)
(Apparently even if you get rid of all internal links, it doesn't work if you have enough offsite links to the old URLs.)
Then hold your breath, for 3-12+ months.
And beware: Google only considers "NOINDEX" as a "suggestion".
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Still wondering if it's not better to simply replace the old page with a page containing a single text link to the new page rather than redirecting.