Remove redirected domain from Google

Hi all,

For a client of ours, I need to merge 3 domain names. The old urls of 2 domain names will be redirected to the new url of 1 domain name.

However, currently the old urls are also indexed in the search engine. I would rather not have that. For example, I have the following:

Old url: xxxxxx1.com/vacancies redirect to xxxxxxx2.com/vacancies, only in the search engine xxxxxx1.com/vacancies also still appears. I don't want that, I just want xxxxxxx2.com/vacancies to be shown.

Is this possible and if so, how?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Mmeijers

Did you try to move the site permanently to the new site from GSC? You can do that by using Google's "change of address" option in settings page.

I assume the old sites have some links pointing to them? In this case, you should do a 301 redirect to the new domain - then the old links will still pass the link juice to the new site, otherwise, your new domain will have no links anymore.

If the whole site structure is the same you don't even need to redirect every single page - you can use something like this in your .htaccess file on the old domains (assuming you are on a Linux hosting):


This will redirect all visitors from yourolddomain.com/vacancies to yournewdomain.com/vacancies (and all other pages of the old domain). The old domain will gradually disappear from the index and the new domain will show up instead.