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I was looking through my analytics tool and going through the keywords that got me hits from google.
I checked one out on their search page, and it links to a subdomain that hasn’t been on the site for over a year. In the search result it points to my old adult subdomain, but with content in the correct place.
I’m totally confused. Nothing on the site points to the old subdomain at all. How could google ‘think’ that the content is on the old subdomain when the image it has appears on a recently updated area of the CORRECT location.
I’m totally confused.
The old URL is in their index, but they know there’s a redirect to the new URL. Perhaps there are words in the old URL that are more appropriate to the query.
For example, if you search for Jayson Park you’ll see the first search result is from JaysonPark.com – that domain has never had any content on it. It’s only ever had a redirect to a page on my site. Yet the domain name with no content is what is displayed in Google’s SERP, because 1) they’re aware of it because there are links to it, and 2) JaysonPark.com is more appropriate to the search term Jayson Park than rawtop.com is.
So it looks weird, but there is a logic to it.
That’s the thing. The subdomain doesn’t exist. There isn’t a redirect to the main domain. That’s what’s so confusing.
I think Google automatically redirects to the primary domain when the sub is removed. So if the URL is in there and they can no longer find the page, they’ll keep it on file but rarely offer it unless the search is absolutely specific, than they’ll show the archived result and redirect straight to the primary domain.
I saw this raised on another forum a while ago and that’s basically how others described it.
It isn’t redirecting. When you click the link I was talking about above in the search results it goes to the subdomain, giving a 404 error.
Oh, then that’s nothing really… Google’s just being slow removing pages from its index. There are probably other pages still pointing to that URL somewhere.
that subdomain hasn’t existed for over a year now. I don’t see how google could be that slow, but oh well. guess there’s not much i can do about it
With Webmaster Tools you can ask them to remove URLs. HOWEVER, you’ll have to reinstate the subdomain to prove ownership of it. If possible it’s best to reinstate it and do 301 redirects to the appropriate pages.
