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Moved my site from a domain .com.something to .com
My site .com.something is using 301 permanent redirects to point the .com and both sites are being crawled by google and yahoo as well other spiders. (Good!)
So I guess I can delete the redirects in the old .com.something.
But the point is: the .com.something has it's own content now but lot of pages that are now in the .com are indexed already in SE's. So if I quit the redirects permanent, they will be all 404 errors. Many of these are #1 pages!
However I find in my logs many entries with stay lenght 0:00 and guess what: those are the yahoo or google search results that points to a page that used to be in my site (now that file is in the .com) the redirect is actually working but it seems takes too long to redirect because when the user clicks the result the server is redirecting to the new .com site.
So the user leaves the site without enter.
The question
What is the smartest move in this case?
1) Remove all redirects and leave the SE find the pages again itself and lost all the #1 positions giving 404 errors
2) Leave the redirects (until when?) don't let go the #1 positions achieved and loose visitors who leave because of the time delay caused by redirects
3) Do something with the redirections to be faster (what to do?)
4) Any other smart thing I can't figure out
Help please!
That doesn't seem right - no user should be able to even notice the difference, unless your server / the network is exceptionally slow.
You are probably seeing visits from googlebot.
Leave the permanent redirects in, it takes time ( at least a month, possibly longer ) for google to completely update it's index.
