301 Redirect and Google

[ResaleBroker]

I recently added a 301 redirect to my .htaccess file for my index page.

Googles cache results for the index page "were" being updated every other day.

Now the cache results show a page from 2 weeks back and haven't changed for more than a week.

How long do you think it will take before Google starts showing this redirect?

Thanks!

[digitalpoint]

What are you redirecting to? The page you are redirecting from will disappear from the index altogether at some point.

[ResaleBroker]

I am redirecting to another page on my site: http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/index.php

This is the page I want to show up anytime someone goes to my site.

[digitalpoint]

The cache is showing 3 days old actually...

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:URMzlyoZl0cJ:www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/index.php/+inurl:www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/index.php&hl=en

[ResaleBroker]

I was referring to the "cache" that is showing up when I go straight to Google
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=www.resalebroker.com

By the way, based on what I'm trying to achieve the 301 redirect was the way to go, right? :o

[digitalpoint]

The cache is old because there is no such page anymore. As I mentioned, at some point that page will disappear from the index altogether.

[ResaleBroker]

I don't mind if the index page dissappears as long as any page rank that index page had transfers to the new page.

[Old Welsh Guy]

The redirect will kick in right away, but the Page rank normally take one, or sometimes 2 PR/B updates to kick in. Yahoo on the other hand is crap at handling 301's ;)

[ResaleBroker]

On a similar vein...
How do I configure mod_rewrite to change "any" instance of;

listingview...
to
real-estate-listings/listingview...

Thanks!

[Owlcroft]

The redirect will kick in right away, but the Page rank normally take one, or sometimes 2 PR/B updates to kick in.Which is a colossal pain in the, ah, elbow, and seems grossly unfair. Does anyone have any idea of why G does things this way? It must be the commonest thing for people to re-organize sites, or break out what was a sub-site into its own domain. Why is there this bizarre delay in equating the new with the old? (It just kills me: I had a single page of one site that was #1 for its term, moved it to a new site of its own, even added in some other pages, and the whole thing vanishes without a trace of either old or new in the SERPs; had another "sub-site" that was #8/#9 for its term, same story; and this has happened before. Sure, in the fullness of time they return, but WHY this maddening and needless dropout period?)

How do I configure mod_rewrite to change "any" instance of;

listingview...
to
real-estate-listings/listingview...I assume from the ellipsis mark that there would be text following listingview that you would want passed on. If so, I believe this would do it:

RewriteRule listingview(.*)$ http://www.real-estate-listings.com/listingview($1) [L,R=301]

[ResaleBroker]

I assume from the ellipsis mark that there would be text following listingview that you would want passed on. If so, I believe this would do it:

RewriteRule listingview(.*)$ http://www.real-estate-listings.com/listingview($1) [L,R=301]

Hello Eric,
Thank you for the help. If I can get this to work I won't have to redirect the index page and can avoid any hassle that comes with doing that.

The URL's that I want to redirect look like this:

http://www.resalebroker.com/listingview.php?listingID=2

I need the URL's to look like this
http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview.php?listingID=2

I tried the rewrite you suggested but it isn't working. Any ideas?

Thanks again,

[ResaleBroker]

I played around with the code you provided and this "almost" works. The only thing wrong is it is leaving off the .php in the second instance.

RewriteRule listingview.php(.*)$ http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview$1 [L,R=301]

Outputs:
http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview()?listingID=2

Thanks for the help!

[ResaleBroker]

I finally figured it out. The code that works is:

RewriteRule ^listingview* http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview.php$1 [L,R=301]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate it!