There is no change of address pending for your site
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Hi everyone. Google has recently started using our old .net instead of .com in the SERPS. I went to do a change of address for the old http://www.sqlsentry.net and it gives me the "There is no change of address pending for your site." I've tried for both www and non-www and still get the same result. All pages seem to be redirecting to the new site with no issues. Is there anything else I can do to change this? Or is there a step I'm missing? Thanks!
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Hi Sika,
Your redirects from the .net to the .com site are 302 (temporary) and not 301 (permanent) and is likely the reason your .net urls are staying in the serps.
If you get those switched over to 301 then with a little patience all your .net urls should be replaced by the correct .com ones.
You can check what kind of redirects you have with various online tools like this one: http://www.redirect-checker.org/
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