HI all, I'd like your views on this. One of my sites (www.crazygeek.co.uk) - and yes I know it's not optimized - has got caught by somekind of redirect in a directory. If you look at the google cache of the site, it's showing the directory page. This I'm certain is due to the fact that their using a redirect within the directory. I'm still seeing G crawl my site, and I've still got pages in G. My SERPs don't seem to have dropped. So does this redirect overly matter. I'm trying to get it removed anyway, but I'm not convinced that it's actually causing a problem
It does matter, it will have a negative effect on your SERPs. Either request to be removed from the directory, or just give it time, and Google will probably drop the redirect URL, and display the real one.
That's just it. It doesn't seem to be having any effect on SERPs at all. If anything SERPs are actually getting better. I'm not convinced about this type of redirect. My site isn't showing as supplemental results or anything like that, G is still crawling the site etc etc. I've requested to be removed from the directory (whether they got the email or not lord only knows).
Of course, the next problem is if they don't respond - which they don't seem to be doing - how the hell do I get this url out of the G index. The directory is using a meta refresh so it's not being seen as a 302 redirect. So adding the nocache, noindex to my page then requesting removal from G isn't going to work. Hmm, I'm out of ideas.