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Old URL removal - difficulties

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  • 08-06-2010 11:16am
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    ronan0
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭


    My root directory (main domain) contains two folders containing sub-domains.

    Root directory has a 301 redirect to sub-domain

    One of the sub-domains has a 301 redirect to the other sub-domain.

    Google is still listing pages from the redirected sub-domain.

    I (think I) need to put a robots.txt file in the root domain to block robot access to the sub-domain.

    However, I cannot put an index file into and verify the root domain since it redirects to the sub-domain in use.

    :confused:


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    #2
    declanon
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭declanon


    Have you tried removing the redirect, then using Google webmaster tools "Crawler access" -> "Removal URL" to remove the unwanted URL's?


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    ronan0
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭ronan0


    I think I have it.

    I put the meta-verification info into the index of the site where all the redirects point to.

    Should work now. Thanks.


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    pixeldesign
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 188 ✭✭pixeldesign


    As far as i know, google updates are once/3 months.Your pages cant disappear in few days.Once you have a 301 redirect, google knows you moved, so he is going to change the indexed urls from old website with the new ones without being penalised of duplicate content.


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    tomED
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭tomED


    pixeldesign wrote: »
    As far as i know, google updates are once/3 months.Your pages cant disappear in few days.Once you have a 301 redirect, google knows you moved, so he is going to change the indexed urls from old website with the new ones without being penalised of duplicate content.

    If handled correctly the old URLs can be gone in weeks.

    When moving a site, the idea of the 301 is really to pass all the link love and authority built up on your old domain to your new domain. It's not really about duplicate content although that is one thing you should definitely be aware of.


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