New website - not showing in Google?
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This site was launched 3 days ago, bimcosupply.com and I'm trying to get it to show in Google just for a branded search for the moment (Bimco, Bimco Corporation, etc).
The old site is still showing in search, bimcoplumbingsupplies.com instead. This site was taken down a while back. I set up a redirect for the domain in cPanel, and also set individual pages to redirect in WordPress on the bimcosupply.com site.
I've verified the site in Google Search Console, submitted a sitemap and did URL inspection on each page. Each page is showing as indexed, though now when I search site:bimcosupply.com not all pages are there, and there are two results for the home page, one "https" and one "http." (Before today, all of the pages were showing so not sure what changed).
I know this new domain does not have any (or very little) domain authority yet, but I would have thought that the site should display for branded search by now.
So I'm concerned that something is wrong with the site, how the redirects are set up, etc. that is preventing it from displaying. Could anyone take a look and help me figure this out please?
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Wildcard will work, that means that "http://old_url/anything_here" will redirect to "http://new_url/anything_here". However, it looks like you can set up individual redirects using the box next to the slash, and the box underneath labelled "Redirects to".
For example:
/contact.asp
Redirects to:
https://bimcosupply.com/contact/I note you say you have changed it to redirect to https now, but I am still seeing a redirect to http. I also see that you are using CloudFlare. If you haven't already, I would suggest turning off caching for the moment, as this will make testing more difficult (Otherwise, after each change, make sure you flush the cache for both domains)
At the moment I am still seeing the same behaviour resulting in all of your redirects going to the home page. Given that other random urls give a 404 (https://bimcosupply.com/sdfdsfs -> 404), I think your individual redirects must be broken. Which plugin are you using? I'm a fan of Redirection by John Godley https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
Regarding the toggle switches, I would imagine they should be turned off. Your site is currently indexable, but that could be caching perhaps.
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Hi Alex,
Thanks for your response.
Sorry, I'm sure this is a pretty basic question, but how would I set individual redirects on the old domain to new pages? The DNS is managed at Cloudflare with the A Record pointing to my host (InMotion). I have a cPanel account for the old domain, and inside that is where I have the old domain set to redirect to the new one. I did just change the redirect now to be for https instead of http (which is how it was set originally). Also, before, "Wildcard" was not enabled, so I enabled it this time. But I don't see any options to set up individual redirects there. Screenshot attached. With 'Wildcard' enabled, should I remove the individual page redirects in WordPress at bimcosupply.com?
Since posting this question, I realized a couple of things on bimcosupply.com that I just changed which may have affected things:
- The site URL in WordPress was still set to http, so I updated it to https
- I regenerated the /sitemap.xml so that it would reflect the URLs as https instead
- I didn't have canonical tags set on any pages, so I enabled them now
- There was a setting in my SEO plugin for Titles & Meta > Post Types > Pages > Indexing where "noindex" and "nofollow" were turned off, so I enabled them. That seemed counter intuitive, but I'm attaching a screenshot of those settings and the description under each, so it seems like those should be enabled?
Any thoughts on these changes (anyone)?
Neil
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You've done everything that I would have suggested, but I don't think your redirects are configured quite correctly.
At the moment, you have a redirect chain that causes anything that hits the old domain is redirected the root of the new domain. (E.g. http://www.bimcoplumbingsupplies.com/contact.asp -> http://bimcosupply.com/contact.asp -> https://bimcosupply.com/contact.asp -> https://bimcosupply.com/)
Either, set up individual redirects on the old domain to new pages (including the https), or set up a redirect that keeps the rest of the URL and then managed your redirects in Wordpress; the latter way will create a small redirect chain, but likely will be easier to configure and monitor.
That said, I don't think that issue would be causing any massive issues, and going back to your original question, I think it's now just a matter of time to be honest.
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