Site that's 301 redirected is ranking for brand
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We own a number of foreign TLD domains for our brand. They are all 301-redirected to our main .com branded domain.
One of them is appearing in our branded search results, outranking out main .com page. To be clear, this is despite there being a 301 redirect from it to the .com page.
Any ideas on what is going on here?
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Have you used a server header checker tool to make sure that it's a 301 redirect? Especially one that emulates googlebot, to make sure Google is seeing that 301?
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Yes, like Keri said. The 301 might not be working.
It's actually normal for google to index 301ed domains. Ive seen it more than a handful of times. So it's probably a matter of time before it disappears.