(Entry was posted by Petter Magnusso on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/15/2019).

I forgot to turn on noindex while developing my new site

I forgot to turn on noindex while developing my new site on a subdomain, so it started ranking. Now I killed it and moved to real domain, but can still see the old site when I google. Turned on redirect for the subdomain to the main domain, so old links will take you to main domain. Should I do anything else?

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Clint Butler: That just takes time to work itself out, google will update in due time
Petter Magnusson: Clint Butler tnx! Should I even remove the redirect?
Clint Butler: No, leave it
Jason Mun: What Clint said! If you want to hurry the process along, you can nuke the subdomain using the url removal tool in GSC
Justin Mager: Resubmit your website for indexing.
Petter Magnusson: Justin Mager interesting, how would that help?
Justin Mager: Petter Magnusson will make Google recrawl the website faster updating all your information to the correct urls.
Petter Magnusson: Justin Mager right, tnx!
Bill Hartzer: Why do you need to redirect the subdomain? Is there traffic other than the rankings?

Is it outranking the main site or just ranking for some keywords?â€¦See More
Petter Magnusson: Bill Hartzer tnx, no traffic, no high rank, so maby better remove, yes.
Petter Magnusson: Bill Hartzer but seems to be a bit various suggestions around that....
Rizwan Pasha: just take a cup of coffee, google will do the rest in some days or weeks may b