Hello there wonderful people of Digital Point! As you have probably guessed from the title I have a problem on hand and in need of your expert advices. First of all I wanted to know how often does google refresh their caches but my main problem is that a SUBDOMAIN of my site used to be the location of my blog till I decided that it wouldn't do me any good so I deleted the subdomain and moved my blog to my MAIN Domain. Now what I was shocked to see that my site did get indexed and it was my old SUBDOMAIN, google indexed my blog posts from that domain and now I can't seem to get indexed. You can see my problem by searching google for "MultimediaSpark.com" What Do you think I should do? Thanks in advance!
I see it. Eventually Google will delete blog.multimediaspark.com from it's listings (probably 1 to 6 months). As for the new blog being indexed, well I typed in "MultimediaSpark.com" in google and their was a listing their at the bottom of the first page.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Why wait when you can do it yourself. I am hoping that you have a 301 redirect in place.
Sorry for sounding dim but what is a 301 redirect? And how do I remove it from index.btw I already deleted the subdomain w/in my Cpanel.
You can do a 301 redirect. I am not good with this but I searched google and I found out you can redirect your subdomain to your main domain using this way Redirect 301 http://blog.multimediaspark.com/ http://www.multimediaspark.com/ on your htacces file. I am not a 100% sure about this but you can try.
OK nothing to feel dim about, no one was born with all the knowledge they have now and is only acquired. 301 redirect is an option that allows you to direct visitors from a domain that does not exist or has been taken of due to some reason (very similar to your case). For example: if you have a domain www.blog.abc.com and then you decide to remove it. Now that url has already been indexed by search engines and elsewhere and therefore visitors are likely to follow to url only to find that it does not exist. 301 redirect, if implemented would divert customers to the new url where the page exists now. So if I type www.blog.abc.com I land on www.abc.com/blog. Now you can implement 301 by adding the 301 directive to the htaccess file if your website is hosted on server using LAMP technology. If you find it hard to do it yourself as your web hosting company, give them the old and new url and they will do it for you. It will also tell Google that the old url is no longer there and therefore Google will update its index faster. Dual benefit. In google webmaster tools, after logging in, on the left panel, click on option that says "Tools" and there is link which says remove url. Follow the link and then it should be done for you. Hope this helps.
Yeah, I see you ranking 3 times on the search for your website. I'd suggest redirecting it also, then you're covering 30% of the search results That never hurts! Don't remove the page