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PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:47 am    Post subject: Anybody know how to remove old pages from google's index? Reply with quote
I have just got rid of 4 pages from my website and they have been replaced by new pages, the old ones still rank in Google and when people click onto them they get page cannot be displayed, there is no navigation to the old pages and I have changed my sitemap and my feed, will this do the trick? I only made the changes a few days ago how long is it likely to take before Google removes the old pages? I know some sort of redirect might help, is this dodgy? If it is not dodgy how do I set this up? I am not a professional web designer by a long shot, I use dreamweaver. 

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If Google crawls your website frequently then they will be out of Google's index (hopefully) in a week or so. I believe there are official channel in which you can have them removed but it would probably take just as long.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Always redirect your traffic when you renew your site.
Wheter you change the hierachy or remove some pages. Follow the traffic and when it stops you can safely remove those pages.

Also remeber that there can be links to those pages, so checking your traffic is vital in that part too. You dont want to leave broken behind because they will propably get removed and you will lose precious links to your site.

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
like anylund said redirect your customer from those pages....also to make google crawl more frequently to your site change the meta tags in your webpages.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:49 pm    Post subject: ! Reply with quote
Isn't it annoying to see those page not found messages after clicking on the links on SERPs!   Anyway, thanks for that link.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
luckymurari wrote:
....also to make google crawl more frequently to your site change the meta tags in your webpages.
The most effective way to make googlebots crawl your pages more frequently is not meta tags but changing the crawl rate in Google webmaster tools.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
its not a distrubance .
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Definitely your old pages will take some time to remove from the Google index. Google updates its entire index automatically on a regular basis. If Googlebot encounters a "Not Found" 404 error page on your site, it doesn't crawl it further and deletes the outdated link from the next crawl.
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