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What if a 301 redirect is removed?
#1: no. Once both pages have been recrawled, and maybe a month has gone by to "settle" out the link juice, they'll be independent pages again. Now, having said that, it's very possible that once you've 301'd a URL, it's going to be very low on the crawl priority, as the 301 TOLD Google that the redirect was permanent. But eventually it'll recrawl it. You can force it in WMT with a Fetch as Googlebot + Submit URL. When Google appears to have the memory of an elephant regarding links, the circumstances are usually something like this: Google crawls the URL and gets Good Stuff. Then, the URL goes away (404s or 500s). Google is hoping to see that lovely lost URL come back, and even if it no longer finds links to that URL (internal or external), it will continue to try to refetch that for quite some time (months, it seems). Ditto Bingbot, btw. In the absence of new info (the page simply is missing or broken), Google will keep its cache of what was on the page, show it in the SERPs, and retain link metrics from it to other pages....for a LONG time. I've seen no evidence at all that Google has a "memory" for past link juice and transfers that juice the way you've described. However, it seems clear that the folks at Google DO have the ability to look at link history manually, through their tools....for instance, to evaluate changes in backlinks for penalty reconsideration.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MichaelC-150220 -
How does Google treat chained 301 redirects?
From other blog posts and my also from own experience, you are losing approx 15% linkjuice for each 301 hop. Too many hops and Google will give up ...Matt Cutts recommended not having more than 2 or at the most 3 redirect hops for googebot to crawl.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | generalzod0 -
Success stories of theme sponsored sites
I agree. These kinds of sites with similar link profiles mushroom towards the top of the SERPS all the time. But then as Google catches up with algorithm updates and applying them to their indexes, those kinds of sites disappear for ever.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | NakulGoyal0 -
Accidentally blocked Googlebot for 14 days
Thanks for the info. My site has current crawl rate at 350,00 pages per day so will take 10-20 days to crawl the entire sites. Most of organic traffic comes to 10,000 urls while others are pagination urls etc. Now all the traffic 1st inner page of each term disappeared in the results of inurl: command.
Technical SEO Issues | | Bull1350 -
What if an old site goes into PENDINGDELETE status
When a domain goes into pending delete status it's DNS have been usually deactivated for a while, generally since the domain entered it's redemption grace period (depending on the domain extension and the registrar). It usually takes some time for a 301 to 'settle', so I would renew the old domain and keep it redirected for a while, here you'll find a compendium of data on the subject. The thing is, if the domain has gone into pending delete status, the domain will be deleted soon (5 day period) and you won't be able to renew it. You could use a back order service to try and snatch it, or you could try to do it by hand if the domain is not valuable. 1- When the domain expires (probably sooner), you will loose access to the domain hence the address change will stop working, you'll see that in Webmaster Tools. 2- The pages will cease to exist and so will the redirections, the advise is to keep control of the old domain for at least 180 days. 3- It depends on several factors, like the amount of indexed pages, the amount of links pointing to them, crawling rate, etc. but for an average site it usually takes a couple of months for it to completely disappear from the index (can be a lot faster though).
Technical SEO Issues | | Branagan0