Google 301 and Seomoz

13.11.07

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 :

seomoz

DaveN

16 Comments

  • 1

    “Playing SEO experts”?

    Is that like, I am not a real SEO, I just play one on TV? :)

    Dave Dugdale
    http://www.rentvine.com/default.cfm?cs=127

    13th November 2007 @ 15:16

  • 2

    kinda :)

    DaveN

    13th November 2007 @ 15:26

  • 3

    I think it is more like: With things like this going on - how can we ever determine we are actually to do?!

    Walter Wimberly
    http://blog.waltdesign.com

    13th November 2007 @ 17:01

  • 4

    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.

    JLH
    http://www.jlh-design.com

    13th November 2007 @ 17:55

  • 5

    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.

    Jeremy Luebke
    http://www.xuru.com

    13th November 2007 @ 20:11

  • 6

    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…

    Igor The Troll

    13th November 2007 @ 20:50

  • 7

    How long ago was this 301 implemented?

    inkode
    http://www.inkode.co.nz

    13th November 2007 @ 23:41

  • 8

    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 :)

    randfish
    http://www.seomoz.org

    14th November 2007 @ 00:40

  • 9

    Rand next time redirect them all to DaveN…:)

    Igor The Troll

    14th November 2007 @ 05:45

  • 10

    It’s odd that google is now inside and running so to speak.. even thou the 301 is back in place..

    DaveN

    DaveN

    14th November 2007 @ 09:58

  • 11

    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.

    Rob
    http://brightscape.net

    14th November 2007 @ 13:14

  • 12

    Could very well be though, they take like up to 60 days to actually pick up on a 301 redirect…

    Joost de Valk
    http://www.joostdevalk.nl/

    15th November 2007 @ 14:54

  • 13

    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.

    Forrest
    http://blog.forrestcroce.com/

    16th November 2007 @ 09:48

  • 14

    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.

    g1smd

    22nd November 2007 @ 17:40

  • 15

    Hmmm, 301 redirects just leave me cold - don’t like em, don’t use em.

    SEM guy Perth
    http://www.foursquareinnovations.co.uk/web_design_pages/seo_perth_search_engine_optimization_perth.html

    28th November 2007 @ 18:26

  • 16

    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.”

    Rishil

    6th December 2007 @ 18:41

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