http redirects

change of googles behaviour?

[wisperhill]

until now I thought that google will follow a http redirect, index only the target page (with target url) and give the pr to the target.

example:
oldsite.com -> newsite.com
google search results: newsite.com

now google seems to have changed this method and the redirect url appears in the search results.

oldsite.com -> newsite.com
google search results: oldsite.com with content from newsite.com

this causes two big problems:

1. domain-mapping
I always tried to avoid domain mapping to not have two domain-names with the same content. so I used http redirects.
example: amazone.com -> amazon.com
now, instead of amazon.com, amazone.com would be listed at google.

2. affiliate links
my affiliates link to my site with url parameters
example: mysite.com/something.html?affiliate=name
I don't want them to pay for google traffic so I make a http redirect to the same page (mysite.com/something.html) without affiliate id. this worked very well, but now the affiliate link appears in the google search results.

can anyone confirm this change of behaviour and/or give me a solution for the two problems?

[settpoint]

Yes I've noticed this - sorry I have no solution.
Where I had bestwidgets and best-widgets, previously I only linked and submitted one to google and this is the version that ended up in the SERPS. Now all of a sudden both versions turn up!? Is this going to cause duplicate content prolems?

[zgb999]

Use 301 redirects if you have several domains with the same content.

[g1smd]

Or put <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> on the old pages.

[settpoint]

As the title reads "change of googles behaviour?" - The sites I am referring to have been on google for a year or more (all pages fully indexed) - but just in the last few weeks I've noticed this change?!

[Clever]

yes, this is realy a problem

look at this threat:
[webmasterworld.com ]

no idea how to get a domain back until now

[wisperhill]

it's really confusing... now I have some http-redir-targets in the google index and also some http-redirs-pages at the same time. maybe google is correcting this bug!
I also changed the redirect from 302 to 301... now let's wait for googlebot and see...