Old Domain Redirection Removed Month Ago, But Still Backlink is Crawled

[pankajdas0909]

Hi Everyone,
We stop redirection from old to current domain approx one month before. Also, remove the change of address option in Google search console. However, backlink of the old domain still showing in backlink data with latest crawling & indexing date. Done anyone know the real reason behind this crawling.

[goodroi]

Depends on how you were redirecting, the domain popularity and the report you are monitoring.

Google webmaster reports are not always up to date. For up to date information you should look at your own log files to see if Googlebot is visiting and what it does when it visits.

To googlebot more interested in your domain, you want to make it more popular. A strong metric of domain popularity is backlink power. If you have very little traffic/links, then Google is not going to make your site a priority and it can take weeks for it to revisit of course this varies widely depending on different criteria.

[not2easy]

Many details can cause problems when changing from one domain to a new one. I don't have a definitive list of items on a checklist, but you can start with using the GSC tools for your "Change of Address" which you have mentioned, but you should not remove it.

There are various ways to redirect traffic, the following refers to using Rewrite Rule via .htaccess in Apache - if you're using something else, just skip this: Be sure that each old URL is sent to its new URL with a 301 (Permanent) response. If the rule does not specify R=301, it defaults to Apache's 302 (Temporary) response.

Don't send all visitors to the home page on the new site - that forces them to try to find the page they thought they were going to visit. Google calls that a soft 404 and they don't like to see soft 404s. Add the new domain to your GSC as a new property and depending on the type of site, begin noindexing the old URLs as soon as they are indexed in the new domain.

When you begin submitting the new domain's sitemap(s) you should be able to see in the search console as the new domain's content becomes indexed. You can discontinue using a sitemap on the old domain when most of your content is indexed on the new domain.

[aristotle]

backlink of the old domain

I don't understand what backlink you're referring to. If it was a re-direct, that's not the same as a backlink. Please explain.