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The .com setup should track the .de as a referring site. It wont give you much information though, but since it is a 301 then you are not going to get any search engine traffic to the .de as any backlinks built to the .de domain will be rewarded to the .com

To get a domain to rank, either it is a 302 (which dont always stick around) or framed domain forwarding, which in my experience is risky business and a practice I stay away from.

If you are doing some paid advertising (such as forum sponsorship), then the .com tracks referrals via 301.

Is correct, a simple 301 in your .htaccess file should solve the problem. I have seen instances where a blog post can overtake the index page, maybe because of similar content on the pages, but by removing the blog post and 301 redirecting it to the homepage always fixes the problem.

It might be that having made recent changes to the structure of your site that Googlebot hasn't caught up yet, your old home.html may be still cached (check your cache date of home.html) with the original content and Googlebot can still spider it if it is still there (remember that even though a page could be deleted, it can still be cached depending on the last cache date), and if you use that same content on the new homepage then redirect (then delete) the old homepage and use a canonical tag on your new homepage to speed up the process:

http://support.googl...n&answer=139394

Googlebot is quick to pick up new content, but unfortunately it is vice-versa when it comes to removing pages and wanting them deindexed unless you use methods such as 301, or blocking access with robots.txt, or introducing a 'noindex' meta tag. Do not simply delete your old home.html page otherwise that will create a 404 that will report in Webmaster Tools.

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