: Do I have to add several domains pointing to the same site to Google Webmaster Tools? I have multiple domains pointed on the same site. I chose one to be the canonical one, and redirected

@Karen161

It seems like crawling is not the same as indexing. My page has been crawled earlier than it has been indexed, that's why I got confused. Now only the new domain is in the search results.

Thanks to Richard Crosby for helping with this answer.

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@Fox8124981

Think Mike above is spot on -


I'd only add domains to GWT if at least one URL containing the domain
name produces a real page people can see.


You've tagged as '301-redirect' - are you using 301's?

I could be wrong here - but if Google crawls a page and get's a 301 (a permanent redirect) - as far as they're concerned the page has moved location and the old location is invalid.

After a while (if they were there in the first place) Google will remove this old 'websites' from their index as it has not content - and you are telling them via the 301 it has permanently moved to a new location.

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