Redirected pages still in Google’s index

Are your redirected pages really disappearing from Google’s search results? Don’t be too sure!

In the image, you see a page redirected on the 20th of January. It was still shown on the 12th of February in the search results. So it took a good 3 weeks before Google finally picked it up.

Why? 🤔

Well, Google crawls your website, but not every minute!

If you update something on your page, it takes a while before Google picks it up.

How can you improve this?
✅ Reindex the (redirected) page using Google Search Console
✅ Make sure your sitemap is up to date after you insert the redirect
✅ Update your internal linking to the new page