301 crawled pages with no title/desc in google

[Imaster]

I did a 301 redirect for a site and almost all the new urls have been crawled in google. But around half of them are simply showing as urls with no content (title/desc/cache, etc).

In fact, several pages from the old site also exhibit the same behavior (They were perfectly crawled before 301). I have found several examples where both the old and new redirected urls exhibit such a status i.e. they don't have any information other than the url.

Could there be something wrong?

[Craig_F]

I'm no expert, at all when it comes to server side stuff, but it could be due to your 301 set up. I've had the same problem since last april or so (seems like the 301's caused a duplicate penalty, or something similar). Now I have switched all my 301's to redirect 1 to 1...meaning one page on the old site redirects to one page on the new site. Afteer discussing this with others this method seemed like the easiest way for *me* to prevent any Google confusion. Now I'm just waiting to see what happens.

[Craig_F]

you might also want to check out this eariler thread. similar issues: [webmasterworld.com...]

[Imaster]

I am doing a 1-1 redirect i.e. 301 redirect

www.a.com/abc.html => www.b.com/abc.html

Where a.com is the old domain and b.com is the new domain.

I did this some days back and it worked fine for half of the new urls crawled, but for the rest half, I am still noticing the status which I mentioned above.

Perhaps, I guess it may all be fine after the regular update cycle takes place.

[sullen]

I think it may be a bug in Google: this happened to me a few months ago. Not only did the new pages show up as urls with no content, but over half the pages dropped out of Google altogether.

Yes, it could be in the 301 setup, but I checked and double checked this. It was however an IIS 301 - and I guess t could be that there is a bug affecting IIS-generated 301s.

My solution was to cut losses and just go back to the original domain!

[Imaster]

I am hoping for the best. In my case, as half of the urls are crawled perfectly, I hope the rest others follow suit in the days to come.