301 redirect and search engines

[timeintopixels]

How long until 301 redirects get recognized by search engines? I noticed my link on Google isn't forwarding over to my new domain even after the 301 redirect.

If I go to the site directly, the 301 redirect works.

Anyone know how long it takes for search engines to pick it up? Thanks!

[TakeshiYoung]

It depends on how often your site gets crawled and indexed, which depends on your PageRank as well as how often Google has seen your site updated in the past. If you can get a link or two pointing to the old URL, that will get Google to crawl it quicker and update the link.

[SVmedia]

Yea it definitely depends on crawl rates.  Usually a couple weeks or less, as long as the site's not brand new and has a few incoming links already.

But just to clarify...you're saying that the new URL isn't appearing in search results yet, right?  Not that the link in Google literally isn't redirecting to the new URL.

...because if it's not redirecting yet, something's wrong- check that you 301'd both www and non-www versions.  Hope that helps!

[timeintopixels]

Here's exactly what happens:

I search for some keywords in Google, I see my old website pop up on Google. I click on the link and it doesn't redirect me to my new site.

If I open a new window and go to my old webpage, the 301 redirect works.

What gives?

[timeintopixels]

I figured it out.

I put a "/" at the end of my 301 redirect and it worked.

The other one didn't have a "/" at the end of my URL and it wouldn't forward it respectively.

Hope this solves someone else's problem too!