Hello, I have forwarded my old .com domain to the .org version, but google didn't index the .org domain at all! They see it, crawl it, cache it and then update their cache for the .com version which doen not have any content (only forwards to the .org version), so how can I make google index the .org domain?
is the redirect a server 301 or 302? or is it even a dreaded JavaScript to Meta redirect? I'm guessing it's a server 302 redirect, which means temporary which means to the search engines, please keep checking this redirect as something will come back soon! Where a 301 means permanent meaning, there's nothing here and nothing ever will be, please see the redirect. Strange I know
Which one means "do not index the forwarded-to domain"? I mean, why the .org version is not indexed? They did crawl it!
Crawling and indexing are not the same thing - try checking the cached date to see when the page was last indexed. It may take some time for the changes to come through provided you've correctly got a 301 redirect in place. You may also want to check that the deep links in your old site redirect properly. A good way of doing this is to use the Live HTTP Headers extension for firefox.
make sure you don't have anything silly like a <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> or a robots.txt For it to work, you need the 301, then the SE spider will index your .org soon (anytime between now and 3 months) and next time they spider the .com, they should start to remove it from there database I'm guessing your .com has some tasty links too? with the redirect your .org will get 'splash effect' from the links to the .com