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
16 Comments
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13th November 2007 @ 15:16
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kinda
13th November 2007 @ 15:26
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I think it is more like: With things like this going on - how can we ever determine we are actually to do?!
13th November 2007 @ 17:01
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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.
13th November 2007 @ 17:55
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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.
13th November 2007 @ 20:11
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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…
13th November 2007 @ 20:50
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How long ago was this 301 implemented?
13th November 2007 @ 23:41
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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
14th November 2007 @ 00:40
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Rand next time redirect them all to DaveN…:)
14th November 2007 @ 05:45
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It’s odd that google is now inside and running so to speak.. even thou the 301 is back in place..
DaveN
14th November 2007 @ 09:58
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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.
14th November 2007 @ 13:14
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Could very well be though, they take like up to 60 days to actually pick up on a 301 redirect…
15th November 2007 @ 14:54
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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.
16th November 2007 @ 09:48
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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.
22nd November 2007 @ 17:40
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Hmmm, 301 redirects just leave me cold - don’t like em, don’t use em.
28th November 2007 @ 18:26
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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.”
6th December 2007 @ 18:41
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“Playing SEO experts”?
Is that like, I am not a real SEO, I just play one on TV?