Old Redirected Domain is replacing my current domain on SERPs
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Hello everyone,
All of a sudden a 2 year old redirected domain is replacing my current domain for 2 weeks now, my site is apitus.com and my old domain is aptitus.pe (the redirect is still working), however this only happens on my country google results (google.com.pe), if you check my site on google.com, everything looks ok even with a sitelink, which I no longer have on my country search results.
Back to the issue, the first thing I thought was go to Search Console and take it out from the index, so I asked for access by uploading a file but since everything on that old site redirects to my current site I can't make such action.
While still waiting for such access, is there anything else I could do?.
Thanks in advance.
PD: I'm adding the images of my SERPs
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Well After two weeks nothing has changed, Aptitus.pe is still on top of my brand results, making my ranking score go lower since is a different domain and no sight of sitelinks.
Is there a way to get rid of that old domain?, no luck yet.
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Yeah it's super strange. I've not seen it happen before, but these sorts of anomalies pop up from time to time. As long as you haven't seen a drop in traffic or conversions, I honestly wouldn't worry about it beyond doing what you've been doing and trying to build your brand by building links to your .com site, which is resolving properly.
Please let us know how it all turns out!
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Thanks John,
Regarding search console, I finally got access through google tag manager.
I just fetched aptitus.pe and the status is redirected (An owner of the Search Console property <a target="_blank">http://aptitus.pe/</a> has requested a site address change to http://aptitus.com/), I hope this won't take long and probably I'll have my sitelinks back as well.
Still find it weird how could a 2 year old redirect could come back all of a sudden, I'll post it here when everything goes back to normal.
Thanks a lot
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Did you do website moved through Google Search console?
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Hi Dmitrii,
Thanks for your answer, well I've tried the same search at home, at work, at my peers mobiles, incognito mode and always get the same result. My old domain appearing on the first place (aptitus.pe) instead of my current one (aptitus.com).
It might be a Google TLD issue, but it has been like this for about 2 weeks now.
So any ideas on how can I take out that old redirected domain?.
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Hi there -
Very strange situation! I took a look and see that your site redirects correctly (just one hop to your new site), the canonical is set correctly, etc. But I see aptitus.pe ranking in your home country search engine.
Looking at other places online, your .com is linked from your Google Maps entry and other main places where this sort of thing can cause issues.
To me, the next step would be to:
- Reach out to some of these sites (OSE link) to ask them to update their link to the .com
- Double check your .pe robots.txt and htaccess to make sure they are functioning correctly (sometimes stuff changes and we're not aware of it)
I'd be careful of taking your old site out of the index manually, because it should happen automatically with the 301s especially since your redirects have been in place for so long. Maybe try to Fetch as Googlebot the old homepage so that Google sees it and maybe then they'll respect the 301.
Hope that helps. Please report back.
John
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Howdy.
It's interesting. I checked your queries in both google versions, it works/shows properly to me. Have you checked the query on other computers in your area? Did you try checking in other browsers? with all the cached and history cleaned out?
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