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Hi Kyle Submitted a site map originally,  Google can see and has indexed all the current pages and visits regularly, however non of the authority has been pushed over yet, not even all the PR.. Just must be super unlucky

Hi Patrick Thanks for responding I still have no rankings 80% down, its 14 weeks since i implemented the 301 and some of the inner pages are ranking (Therese are a lot lower than when we did the 301) however the home page even if i copy a line of text wont bring up my site. The original 301 went textbook style and everything looked perfect, but rankings did not follow and all we did was a straightforward name change My developer insisted on doing this in PHP however most his functions and he states when i asked him for the code "The 301 on the new site is integrated into the application and has dependences on other functions, which in turn will have dependences on other functions, which would basically mean handing over a substantial amount of code. Potentially most of the application" So basically on the outside i am 100% convinced that the 301 is chaining somewhere causing me a problem, so i am going to change both old and new sites for htaccess I currently have this single line on the old site RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L] Originally tried the below but got an internal 500 error (ps any reason why that would give me a internal server error) as below would have been my preferred code RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$ RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] I think really what i need is the answer to is what do i put on the old site which is on server 1 is it just a single line 301 and on the new site which is dealing with the canonicals and removal of trailing slash The original issue came when i changed URL name, and it was only the crawler that brought to light that i could not crawl the non www. version of my site (even though it is the www. version i wanted to crawl because the crawler should have gave a message that the site is 301 to the ww, . version but it said page unavailable, however doing it on a colleagues site which had been correctly 301'd gave a message that the site had moved do you want to crawl the current or the new page ... so the crawl test will pick up on a 301 if implemented correctly Hope that made sense

Hi Robert Htaccess uploaded, however the code you provided i think was relying on the sites sitting on the same I.P where in fact they are on different servers with different a I.P so only the bottom line was needed , if we put your code up all looked good but some tools reported 403 Site explorer and site crawler now see the site as 301. so fingers crossed Just need google to visit the old site and see the change and its not been there for ages , ill just ping it and add it to twitter or something

Kind of answered my own question to a point The encoding of a = sign converts to %3D (no idea why SEOMOZ is picking this up on its crawl, the 301 is being done by my htaccess because its an upper case D the 301 it 301's  the upper case to lower case then to a 404 page which is not good, i have fixed this but still wonder why SEOMOZ is seeing the %3D instead of an = sign

HI Doug Posted twice on this subject and the other 2 are here http://www.seomoz.org/q/301-redirect-how-long-until-the-juice-passes-through-to-new-site I have checked server logs and response headers and everything looks absolutely correct, not used screaming frog but have used Xeno I have been complaining for now 10 weeks that i have no traffic since i did the 301, and as i said im only reporting on the new site now which n theory should be 301 clean, except the canonical element part I am now convinced there is a issue as otherwise the crawl from SEOmoz would not pick up those redirects,

Thanks for clearing that up.  It has been years since we changed our domain etc... and our wait was about 6 weeks rather than months, but so much has changed...  anyway, it looks as though you have set everything up correctly, sorry I couldn't be any help.  Good luck my friend - I would say 'build links etc...' while you wait but I have no doubt you already know what to do  Cheers

Hi Paul, We have the same issue, so will be interested to see what is said here. Our site changed from www.stonehills.co.uk to www.stonehillsselfcatering.co.uk using 301's and none of the link juice has copied over at all