A mirror site

How do I get Google to remove a mirror site (mine). I have tried to change almost all sites that link to me to change their links to the proper url, but the old one keeps popping up and therefore drops the proper url which then lists the old (mirror) site at lower rankings than the proper url. This dance occurs about twice a week. Hope this makes sense.

sammy

If I'm understanding you correctly, then you could do a 301 redirect from the old site to the new site!

a 301 will work - you can also directly remove the old URL from the index. Check here.

Gringo.

Thank you, but I am still confused about something. I thought I had asked my host to create a 301 redirct, but I guess it is not working as my good url has now been dropped and the old url is listed in the search results, even though my good url is listed in Googles directory, but not on the search results. This will occur about twice a week and then magically, both of them will appear in the results with the primary url in a better ranking than the old url. The old url is not in a Google directory. Also Yahoo seems to follow suit. I really don't know how to do a 301 redirect, but I assume this has to be done by the webmaster of the host server, is this correct? At the present time, my old url: www.sammymiller.com is listed, much lower in rank, in the search results and the primary url: www.concealedhandgun.com has been completely dropped. This is with using the search term of "texas concealed handgun". This is really frustrating, as it will probably change in a few days, I hope.

Sammy

It looks like your hosting company did a 302 redirect, which means a temporary redirect, instead of a 301.

You can check out the server headers your site returns here.

Ask them to change it to a 301 if this is permanent.

Gringo.

Ok Gringo, thanks for the info. Just contacted my host to please change to a 301. We'll see if that works.

Checked the header and got the following: HTTP/1.1 301 Error
Should it have the ERROR there?

There should be no error when correctly 301 directed. It should putter for a second or two while it pings the server and then opens the main websites url.
It will be seemless to the uneducated eye. The address bar will even change to the main websites url.
IF this doesn't happen, you will need to contact your hosting admin again to correct the issue.

If you are willing to login to your hosting company yourself, you can manually update the Redirect yourself. Look around the for "Rediredt" or URL "Forwarding".

They will usually have step by step procedures listed.
Good luck!

You could just use a robot.txt file to stop google indexing the old site

Does this win the "reply to old post award"??