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RESteve
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Hi Everyone!
Just a brief explanation of my site's history: Started using my corporate site and it sucked, to be honest. I had used the domain: RESteve.com (my nickname) for quite some time.
RESteve.com HAD pr of 3 using my corporate site. Since then, I got tired of the inability to customize, so I created my own (I'm a Realtor, btw). This time, I registered the domain: MyHomeHouston.com, and created more of a community. Yay, it's working out great!
So about 6 months ago, I made RESteve.com redirect to MyHomeHouston.com, so that all my old visitors could be direct to my site. Problem is, is that I think that since google has already indexed RESteve.com, MyHomeHouston.com will not show up!
I think this is what you refer to as a canonical URL? Well, I definately don't want RESteve.com be indexed anymore!
Down to the SEO question: What's the best way to go about killing RESteve.com from being listing in Google? Is having it redirect a good thing? I feel I'm not being indexed due to this, so what do you feel I should do?
Thanks for any help!
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My understanding is that a 301 - Permanently Moved redirect is the right way to do this. When I started my site last fall, I chose the name www.mysudokufix.com , but I quickly decided to expand my reach a little more and got www.logicgamesonline.com instead. I immediately implemented a 301 redirect to the /sudoku/ directory to avoid having duplicate content indexed by Google, and within a week, all the pages Google had indexed at my original domain were pointing to the new one.
So, a couple questions: did you submit your new site to Google? Do you have a robots.txt that allows your site to be crawled? Did you do something to get your site banned by Google (supposedly visible by a grayed out PR bar on the Google toolbar)? Six months without it being indexed is a long time.
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RESteve
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the reponse, Gamemaker!
My site has a white bar, 0/10, unfortunately.
My site is totally SE friendly, no hidden boxes or anything anywhere.
RESteve.com WAS indexed, but when you clicked the link in google it went to MyHomeHouston.com. That's the only link in Google that corresponded to the site I wanted indexed.
Unfortunately, I couldn't control how Yahoo redirects works. (Not sure if it's a 301 or something else). For now, I just completely killed the redirect. I do have a robots.txt to be crawled, and it has been submitted to google.
In fact, google was caught crawling my site, and all links! But they haven't shown up in google at all. Not one single link except the RESteve.com (which doesn't really count).
So was google indexing my site finally, went back and saw it already had similar (exact actually) content on RESteve.com and chose to discard all my indexing?
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