: 301 redirected page indexes with old URL still It has been months since I redirected some pages and the URL has not updated in Google's index. I am also unable to see a cached version of

@Jamie184

I found these pages using the site: feature


This is probably the reason why you are seeing these results, assuming all the (301 permanent) redirects have been correctly implemented and crawled by Google. A site: search is not a normal Google search and can often return URLs that are not returned in a normal search. Previously indexed URLs that are now redirected have been shown to be returned by a site: search.

However, try to find the same page in normal search and it's likely to be returned under the new/target URL (if at all), not the old redirected URL.

A related question regarding the apparent indexing of redirected short URLs:
How to submit shortened URLs to Google so that they are included in the index

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