swirt
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It will all straighten out when Google picks up on the new site + the permanent redirects.Yep, www.bedandbreakfastbrowser.com is the old domain, going back about four years. Its pages 301 redirect to www.bbbrowser.com as you can see here http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=site%3Awww.bedandbreakfastbrowser.com. You caught the old site with a broken database which stopped the redirects. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. The two www.bbbrowser.com pages you see in Google are from before the site went online (hosting "no site configured" pages). It will all straighten out when Google picks up on the new site + the permanent redirects.Do you have plans for solving this issue?
Your site has only two indexed pages in google that are from nearly three months ago. Both are actually the same page. So you already have a canonical issue (shouldn't be showing the www and non-www version) . Your rewrite will solve that. I see that many of your listings have listing dates that go back to 2006 and you have said that some of your data is several years old. That should have been more than long enough to build some history and some toolbarPR as well. I am guessing that was all on the old domain at www.bedandbeakfastbrowser.com
I've looked at the design and don't see any major flaws so either of two things have happened, Either this site has just gone live within the past few days, or it has bigger problems. I see you are redirecting from www.bedandbreakfastbrowser.com but only the home page. The other pages give me an "under modification message". example: http://www.bedandbreakfastbrowser.com/cities-all/2-347-110/ontario.html
You want to get the redirects from all the other pages working before Google drops them all for being non-existent (You never want to lose history) It is the one thing you can't regain quickly or purchase. Once its gone, its gone..
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Something seems amiss. Your redirects should have gotten this site picked up by now. How long has the redirect been in place?
I am wondering if your server is returning the 301 correctly. When I run yours through my redirect checker it returns a 301 code but seems to be missing the location. (this may just be a limitation of my checker) For a 301 it will usually say:
Request made for www.xyz.com/
Response
Status Response: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.newlocation.com/
for yours it says
Request made for www.bedandbreakfastbrowser.com/
Response
Status Response: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:38:28 GMT
Connection: close
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
It is missing the reference to the end location.
It makes me wonder if google is not getting the message of the new location, even though the server does actually handle the redirect and display the location for the browser.
I redirected a blog on Monday afternoon and Google picked up the new location Wednesday morning. (not bragging, just giving you the typical timeframe for redirects.) Given the size of your old site, it should have grabbed something of the new site by now.