After 301, Google bot cannot access the previous site

[leomaster34]

Hello friends, on my site where I constantly 301 and get rankings, my last 301 transaction did not work. The previous domain has not been accessed by Google bot for a week. Therefore, although the new address is indexed, the rankings do not change. How can I ensure that bots visit this site? I tried indexers and did not get any results. I need paid support for the 301 transactions to work successfully.

 

[RoyRoyan]

add both domains to GSC and set up a site move from the first to the second. you can also check if googlebot can access the new domain and request reindexing there. it’s recommended to keep the redirect for at least a year.

 

[tazarbm]

Therefore, although the new address is indexed, the rankings do not change

I might be wrong, but I think there's a limit to how many 301s (external domains I mean) you can do to a site before google starts penalizing it, so if you have more than several (3-4 maybe? I don't know) domains 301-ing to your main site I would stop it.

If you're talking about 301s of internal pages on your site then I don't think there's a limit to this, and the fact that your rankings didn't change (although this could be true about external 301s, as well) can be attributed to many things, such as:

- 301 spam like I said
- tough keyword
- poorly optimized page for its main keyword(s)
- poor quality of the 301 itself (lack of DR and strong backlinks in general)
- not 301-ing the right URL (the URL/page with the highest authority) to your page
- noindex / nofollow tags that present anywhere in the 301-ing process
- slow process of discovery / ranking power attribution to your destination page by google

How can I ensure that bots visit this site?

pointing good links to the old site always works since good links tend to get crawled often. But I don't think you'll want to "waste" your links on dead websites (domains that get 301'd are considered dead and gone sites by google), but that's one option

The other option is, like you said, using paid indexers. If neither of these 2 options work I don't know, I guess you have to wait until google decides to discover the 301.... Maybe there are other options, but I can't think of them at the moment...

Also, @RoyRoyan offered an interesting solution, I think you should try that one too...

 

[dahu888999]

Hello friends, on my site where I constantly 301 and get rankings, my last 301 transaction did not work. The previous domain has not been accessed by Google bot for a week. Therefore, although the new address is indexed, the rankings do not change. How can I ensure that bots visit this site? I tried indexers and did not get any results. I need paid support for the 301 transactions to work successfully.

In your case, after the 301 redirect, Google bots did not crawl the old domain, resulting in the new domain's ranking not being inherited. This problem may have multiple reasons, but it can be optimized mainly from the following aspects:

1. Force Google to crawl the old domain
Use Google Search Console (GSC) to submit the URL of the old domain
Go to GSC → Enter the URL of the old domain → Request crawling, which can guide Googlebot to visit as soon as possible.
Submit Sitemap
Make sure the old domain still has a sitemap.xml and resubmit it in GSC.
Include all URLs that are 301 in the sitemap so that Google can see and process the redirection.
2. Increase the traffic to the old domain (stimulate Google crawling)
Create social sharing (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit) on the old domain and bring in traffic, Googlebot may speed up crawling.
Run AdWords/low-cost ads on the old domain. If you have a budget, you can run a little PPC traffic to guide Googlebot to pay attention to the domain again.
Use Bing Webmaster Tools to submit URLs as well. Although the target is Google, Bing can also help index propagation.
3. Backlinks Ping the old domain
You can use Ahrefs or Majestic to find the backlinks pointing to the old domain, and then:
Manually visit these backlink pages to trigger Google to re-crawl.
Submit these backlinks using Indexing Tools, such as Omega Indexer and IndexMeNow.
4. Server log analysis
Check whether Googlebot has not visited at all, which can be confirmed through server logs.
If Googlebot has visited but not followed up with 301, it may be that your new domain has low trust, resulting in no inheritance of rankings.
5. Paid support (if necessary)
If you are willing to invest in accelerating 301 transactions, you can consider:
Working with a PBN provider to have them mention your old domain on some high-authority websites, so that Googlebot may pay attention faster.
SEO Boosting Services, such as outsourcing to Legiit, Konker or Seoclerks to force index your old domain.
Conclusion
If your 301 is not working, it may be that Googlebot has not fully processed the redirection. You need to increase the crawl rate of the old domain, guide traffic and use backlinks to stimulate indexing. If you are willing to invest, you can consider paid indexing or traffic stimulation methods.

Your previous 301 was successful, but this time it was not successful. It may be that the trust of the old domain is not enough. You can test GSC + backlink Ping first to see how it works.

 

[Titans]

Make sure that both domains don't have any noindex tags and are added to the search console. If they are already added to the console Google might be still processing your redirect and you can wait for some more time. If needed, build some links from authority websites and see the effect.

 

[Steptoe]

Is this new domain at the end of a chain of 301s? Googlebot generally won't follow more than 3 301 redirects in a chain - sometimes you can get away with more but not often IMO.