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How to Get google to get to index New URL and not the OLD url
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Hi Team,
We are undertaking a Domain migration activity to migrate our content frrom one domain to another.
1. the Redirection of pages is handeled at Reverse proxy level.
2. We do have 301 redirects put in place.
However we still see that google is indexing pages with our Old domain apart from the pages from new domain. Is there a way for us to stop google from indexing our pages from Old domain. The recommendations to have Noindex on Page mete title and disallow does not work since our redirection is setup at RP and google crawlers always discover the new pages after redirection.
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If your traffic is redirecting on your new domain from the indexed old domain, that's fine.
However, if you're worried about duplicate content because the old site has the same content as the new site, that can be a problem if the same page is being indexed on two different domains.
You can tell Google that your domain has changed in the old search console.
1. Make sure both domains are setup in Google Search Console.
2. Set up a permanent redirect on the old site's .htaccess file, redirecting every page to the new site.
3. Search "Google change of address" in Google. The first link above should be from Google Support. Click on that and they will give you a link to the old search console.
4. In the old search console, go to the gear on the far right and click on that. You will see "change of address".
5. Be patient. It can take months before those old URLs are gone from Google.
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The question is why? There are still >7000 seomoz.org pages indexed, It is not a big problem, why do you think about it?
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