My Old Domain is Not Changing in Google

[iprosoftware]

I have taken over the following domain www.choice-cottages.co.uk, part of the contract was to re-direct the old site www.choicecottages.info to the new site.  Unfortunately I am only a middle man in the arrangement as the website is hosted with another company.  The switch was done well over 4 weeks ago,  the re-direct itself is working fine.

However if you google choice cottages you will see the first listing is www.choicecottages.info, then I have my new site below for a few listings.

Google is definitely updating something as before the old domain had lots of site links but this has reduced to a few.

Does anyone know anything on this, as in the past it only takes a couple of days to update.

Many thanks

Andy

[RyanKent]

Have you gone into Google WMT for the www.choicecottages.info and informed Google you were moving the site?

[iprosoftware]

ok I may of missed a trick here, I have re-submitted both sites to webmaster tools.  I had assumed that re-submitting the old site Google would see the re-direct and remove the old site.  After your post done a quick bit or research and see that I should notify google of the change.  I have clicked on change of address and I get.

Change of Address

There is no change of address pending for your site.It doesn't give me the option to notify them, any suggestions?Many thanksAndy

[AgentsofValue]

Did you use 301 redirect from your old site to your new site?

Coz if you did, then Google will take some time, not just a couple of days, to discover the 301, recognize it, and credit the new page with the rankings and trust of its old page.

[iprosoftware]

I didn't actually do the 301 re-directs which is why I am worried, this was done by the other company, is there a way of checking?

I just run the domain through site explorer and got the message:

Oh Hey! It looks like that URL redirects to www.choice-cottages.co.uk. Would you like to see data for <a class="clickable redirects">that URL instead</a>?

So I am guessing I am ok, but 4 weeks seems like a long time.

Thanks

[RyanKent]

Does the Google account you are using have sufficient permissions?

When you log into WMT and you see the site, look at the box to the right which says Manage Site. If the only option is to "delete site" then you do not have sufficient permissions.

Redirecting your site with a 301 is the proper action to take. The results you are seeing are normal. Google is slowly crawling your site over time and seeing the redirect on your site's pages and making adjustments. Usually 4 weeks is enough time to see all the changes but there are various reasons it could take longer. Perhaps your site had a momentary problem during a crawl. Perhaps your robots.txt file changed.

Perform a site: search. As long as the number of URLs on the old site are decreasing steadily, I would not be worried.