I recently created a duplicate homepage (index2.html) to try and track inbound links from an ad campaign. Now when I do a search on our primary keyword our rank is much lower than before and Google displays the index2.html url rather than the .com/ url. I changed the url that the ads point to over a week ago but Google has yet to register the change? Can I get Google to reindex my site? Do I just need to wait out? Please advise. Thank you, Ezra
You could put up a Google sitemap, that might help. Otherwise, Google spiders and updates indexes when they feel like it, it's hard to change their mind. You may also consider requesting that they remove the index2.html from the index, but that might end up doing more bad then good. From personal experience, I'd say just let them re-index it at their own pace.
Thanks for the input, I have redirected to the main index page and have pulled the index2.html. Is there any danger in the redirect? I'm also posting a sitemap, thank you.