I still see the old page in index

[seoanalytics]

Hello,

I have done a redirect and still see in google index my old page after 3 weeks.

My new page is there also

Is it normal that the old page isn't dropped for the index yet ?

Thank you,

[Andrew-SEO]

It depends on the circumstances. eg is it a site restructure or a domain name change.

If it's just the one page 3 weeks is a little bit long. Check your crawl frequency in google search console. Check your internal linking. Can the page be crawled easily etc etc

You can manually fetch the old page in search console. The 301 will be detected - then click "request indexing"

[seoanalytics]

It is an entire website (subdomain change) so I guess that is normal ... isn't it ?

[Andrew-SEO]

Yes, that's normal. Have you got redirects in place have you submitted your new sitemap.

Also, use the change of domain tool - it supports subdomains

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/change-address

[seoanalytics]

Do I need to use the tool or should I let google take care of it over time see that I have 301 redirects ?

I looks like the too your mention is to change from www.abc.com to www.aaa.com but not www.abc/old.com to www.abc/new.com.

Thank you,

[Andrew-SEO]

Yes it is from

www.old.com to www.new.com (domain change)

or

old.abc.com to new.abc.com (subdomain change)

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It is not for

www.abc.com/old to www.abc.com/new

Redirects will handle that.

[seoanalytics]

My bad I explained incorrectly subdomain.

Ok so redirects are good in my situation. I will just need to be patient because it has indexed the new page but still shows the new and old one in the search results. I imagine it can take a few month for the old address to go away. If I remember well google keeps the old one in its index for 90 days ? Hopefully it replaces it with the new one soon...