: Google not detecting new page addresses after redesign I recently moved our company's site to WordPress. It was necessary since the old site's structure was poor at best. It's now been three

@Turnbaugh106

have you verified both with Google webmaster tools? verify both and then select your preference.

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@Kimberly868

Dropping the www from your site address is bad practice because you may one day want to put your static content onto a cookie-less domain (for improved performance).

You can only do this from the same domain if your html docs come from example.com and your images etc. come from static.example.com - if you serve html from example.com that means [anything].example.com is tarred with the same cookies.

Your careful setup of 301 redirects will payoff - you have done the right thing (albeit except for dropping the www) and Google will have tidy listings of your site as soon as it visits everything you have setup a 301 for.

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@Holmes151

Google eventually correct all of these "dead links" after some (or a lot of) time.

You should use Google Analytics, as you have already done, and Google Webmastertools, where you can do much more change reporting to Google.

Apart from this, you just have to wait. And it may take some time.
But I think it is a problem that you have put a redirect script on every page that you say no longer works. Then the page is not entirely closed down and "dead" so it may take longer, before it is shut down from search engines.

You can also choose to make an error page instead of redirecting or in addition, for example by using .htaccess.
This way, new users coming in via search engines to dead pages will be told the reason and refered to a working page.

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