Google still listing pages from old domain after 2 change requests

[Ham1979]

Good Morning

I put forward the following question in December 2014 https://moz.com/community/q/google-still-listing-old-domain as pages from our old domain www.fhr-net.co.uk were still indexed in Google.

We have submitted two change request in WMT, the most recent was over 6 months ago yet the old pages are still being indexed and we can't see why that would be

Any advice would be appreciated

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

Have you checked to see if these pages are linked internally or externally from anywhere else? This could be causing issues for Google, but shouldn't.

When did you last request the URL's were removed? And did you check back to see that the notice said they had been removed?

-Andy

[Ham1979]

Many thanks for your reply

There may be some external links that we have been unable to get reconfigured to the new domain but everything internally 301's to the same page on the new domain

The original change request was around March 2014 then had to wait until the option reappeared in around November 2014 when I resubmitted. The option to change is there again now but there have never been any messages back.

Following an idea from someone on the original post today, I looked at robots.txt for old domain in Webmaster tools and its says crawl postponed as robots.txt inaccessible. At the moment it's just a blanket redirect at IIS level so maybe I should try re-establishing robots.txt and a site map and seeing if Google recrawls the old domain and picks up the 301's to the new one.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

maybe I should try re-establishing robots.txt and a site map and seeing if Google recrawls the old domain and picks up the 301's to the new one.

If you can do this, then it is definitely worth doing.

-Andy