Timeline for When 301 redirecting a page, what needs to be in the sitemap?
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| Jul 21, 2014 at 6:12 | comment | added | Sandesh |
PS: After a week observations. Organic traffic dropped to almost zero for all pages which are 301 redirected.
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| Jul 14, 2014 at 8:19 | vote | accept | Sandesh | ||
| Jul 10, 2014 at 14:17 | comment | added | jeffatrackaid | You should not have 301s in your sitemaps. The updates are not instant. If you look at your logs, you will see the bots continuing to hit the old URls for quite some time. It is not as if they process a sitemap and forget their prior search map for your site. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 5:45 | comment | added | Sandesh |
Thanks @jeffatrackaid, Its really helpful and in detail discussion. Actually I am worried about exactly same scenario mentioned there. What I concluded is, after redirecting pages to new ones for some time keep old entries in sitemap so crawler visit those pages and knows 301 redirection. If I am missing anything please correct.
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| Jul 10, 2014 at 4:40 | history | edited | Sandesh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2014 at 17:25 | comment | added | jeffatrackaid | There's been comments from Bing devs that if you have dirt (301's, 404's etc) in your sitemaps they will not crawl them. I would not be surprised if Google has similar policies. Here's a good discussion on this. moz.com/blog/… | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 15:02 | history | edited | Zistoloen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2014 at 13:53 | answer | added | Zistoloen | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 13:26 | history | edited | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2014 at 12:46 | history | edited | Sandesh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2014 at 12:39 | history | asked | Sandesh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |