Google 301 and Seomoz
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 :
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Dave Dugdale 1651 days ago
http://www.rentvine.com/default.cfm?cs=127“Playing SEO experts”?
Is that like, I am not a real SEO, I just play one on TV?
DaveN 1651 days ago
kinda
Walter Wimberly 1651 days ago
http://blog.waltdesign.comI think it is more like: With things like this going on – how can we ever determine we are actually to do?!
JLH 1651 days ago
http://www.jlh-design.comAll 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.
Jeremy Luebke 1651 days ago
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.
Igor The Troll 1651 days ago
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…
inkode 1651 days ago
http://www.inkode.co.nzHow long ago was this 301 implemented?
randfish 1651 days ago
http://www.seomoz.orgFrom 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
Igor The Troll 1650 days ago
Rand next time redirect them all to DaveN…:)
DaveN 1650 days ago
It’s odd that google is now inside and running so to speak.. even thou the 301 is back in place..
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Rob 1650 days ago
http://brightscape.netThat’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.
Joost de Valk 1649 days ago
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/Could very well be though, they take like up to 60 days to actually pick up on a 301 redirect…
Forrest 1648 days ago
http://blog.forrestcroce.com/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.
g1smd 1642 days ago
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.
SEM guy Perth 1636 days ago
http://www.foursquareinnovations.co.uk/web_design_pages/seo_perth_search_engine_optimization_perth.htmlHmmm, 301 redirects just leave me cold – don’t like em, don’t use em.
Rishil 1628 days ago
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.”
KreCi 1015 days ago
http://www.reviewyourhosting.comThat is very strange – anyway I see that seomoz.com is no longer indexed…