Google 301 and Seomoz
- 13th Nov 2007
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Whilst in Seattle, Rand and Me where playing SEO experts and we ran across Seomoz.com being index by Google which is a 301 redirect to seomoz.org, we quickly discussed the recent server move .. blah blah and I had reckoned by the time I got home it would have gone but things are worse ..
There was 2 pages indexed before now Google site: today 45 pages !! and instead of ranking for a long tail query we found in the logs it ranks for :
DaveN
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“Playing SEO experts”?
Is that like, I am not a real SEO, I just play one on TV? :)
kinda :)
I think it is more like: With things like this going on - how can we ever determine we are actually to do?!
All of the dot com pages shown under the site: command show a cache date of November 6th. Not sure if that’s relevant but it points to a single day when something may have gone whacky, either on Google’s side or SEOmoz’s redirect.
I’m showing 52 pages with 3 different cache dates. Nov 6 on all but 2 pages. Another page with Nov 12 and the homepage with a cache of Nov 13.
If the mozplex isn’t playing around with cloaking, it’s a definite bug with Google.
I would disallow the dot com before shit hits the fan, and he’ll get a duplication penalty. Getting gready to pass the PR from dot com to dot org is not to smart…
How long ago was this 301 implemented?
From talking to Jeff and Mel, there were a few hours 2 weeks ago when the redirect did not function, but we literally had them back up and running within 4-5 hours… We’re definitely not cloaking - this one’s on Google :)
Rand next time redirect them all to DaveN…:)
It’s odd that google is now inside and running so to speak.. even thou the 301 is back in place..
DaveN
That’s an interesting one. If it’s all due to 4-5 hour error a few weeks ago, it shows just how quick Google are at picking up changes nowadays. Perhaps too quick in some cases.
Could very well be though, they take like up to 60 days to actually pick up on a 301 redirect…
Considering how many search conferences are right here in my home city … probably Microsoft being nearby has something to do with that … I really should check one out.
It will take a few months for those other URLs to drop out of the SERPs.
They are probably already marked up as being Supplemental anyway.
Hmmm, 301 redirects just leave me cold - don’t like em, don’t use em.
very odd… its still showing about 6 results AND “This is G o o g l e’s cache of http://www.seomoz.com/ugc as retrieved on 2 Dec 2007 04:56:29 GMT.”