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I run a site which has several domain names pointing to the same page, and what was happening up until now is that they all just worked, now what I've done is altered the apache config on the site to do a permanent 301 redirect to the correct url that I want them all to end up at.
Now that i've done this all the existing indexes in google have gone 'stale' ie. they just sit there with old content, they dont get updated, and they dont get removed.
What would be really good is that if google sees a 301 redirect, that it deletes the index for that URL and then takes whatever PR that link has and shifts it to the URL being permanently redirected to. That would seem fair IMHO, because that way a site shifting to another URL doesn't lose its PR.
In addition some other pages have some META Refreshes in them to refresh to a new page (it has been done this way for a reason) and Google is still showing those URL's in the index except its showing them with the content from the destination of the meta refresh.
Is this just a transient issue? or is it a bug? if its a bug are Google likely to fix it?
this is only for a short(er) period of time. if you set the redirect as permanent, googlebot will report this and it will work this info into it's index.
so they won't stay in forever ;)
if you don't want to let google cache your pages at all, juste use the meta-tag for the googlebot. more information can be found here [google.com].
-hakre
