Google keeps indexing old/deleted pages instead of new ones!

tizianina · 11-23-2005, 05:34 AM

Hello!
I'm going pretty much crazy about the following problem...
i recently updated a website (contents+graphics) which was already indexed by Google.
After uploading the new version pages, i deleted old pages because they contained wrong informations and also to make some cleaning of the web space, which was filled with useless files...
Then, i submitted again the domain URL (which remained the same yet), hoping that Google would have indexed new pages again... instead of that, Google kept indexing old pages, and their number is raising...
After doing some searching for help, i've found out about robots.txt, so i used the "Disallow" feature as suggested by the Google help... i waited for new activity by Googlebot thru my stats, and i saw that it came visiting my website only once, no more visits by Googlebot for 2/3 months now...
Please consider the fact that each and every page is correctly linked to the others, as suggested by Google in order to enable the whole scanning by Googlebot...
the unbelievable fact is that i'm noticing that old pages are raised in number in search results (i used the "site:www.mydomain.com] syntax to check this) while new pages are still a very little number...
Any suggestions on how to solve this big problem?
Thanks in advance for your help and attention, i hope you can help me out!

t.

Lupine1647 · 11-23-2005, 08:05 AM

http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller

Have fun.

tizianina · 11-24-2005, 12:35 AM

Lupine, thank you so much for the link, i solved my problem as Google removed from cache all the old pages written in the robots.txt file, and in a few hours!

Now that old pages are removed, i have to understand why i have only 16 pages cached over a total of about 160 pages of my website...

As said, each and every page is reachable as they are correctly linked one another thru HREF tags (no flash links), that's because i red somewhere that Googlebot needs all the pages to be linked one another to deeply scan my website... the problem is that Googlebot never came back visiting my website in 2 or 3 months now (i can see this thru my web/browsers stats...).

I already submitted twice my URL but, except a visit in the early days of new life of my website, Googlebot never came back...

What can i do now?

Thanks for any suggestion that you may have for me, and again thanks Lupine!

t.

11-23-2005, 05:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
tizianina Noogle Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Google keeps indexing old/deleted pages instead of new ones! Hello! I'm going pretty much crazy about the following problem... i recently updated a website (contents+graphics) which was already indexed by Google. After uploading the new version pages, i deleted old pages because they contained wrong informations and also to make some cleaning of the web space, which was filled with useless files... Then, i submitted again the domain URL (which remained the same yet), hoping that Google would have indexed new pages again... instead of that, Google kept indexing old pages, and their number is raising... After doing some searching for help, i've found out about robots.txt, so i used the "Disallow" feature as suggested by the Google help... i waited for new activity by Googlebot thru my stats, and i saw that it came visiting my website only once, no more visits by Googlebot for 2/3 months now... Please consider the fact that each and every page is correctly linked to the others, as suggested by Google in order to enable the whole scanning by Googlebot... the unbelievable fact is that i'm noticing that old pages are raised in number in search results (i used the "site:www.mydomain.com] syntax to check this) while new pages are still a very little number... Any suggestions on how to solve this big problem? Thanks in advance for your help and attention, i hope you can help me out! t.

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11-23-2005, 08:05 AM	#2 (permalink)
Lupine1647 Elite Googler Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 1,065 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller Have fun.

11-24-2005, 12:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
tizianina Noogle Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Lupine, thank you so much for the link, i solved my problem as Google removed from cache all the old pages written in the robots.txt file, and in a few hours! Now that old pages are removed, i have to understand why i have only 16 pages cached over a total of about 160 pages of my website... As said, each and every page is reachable as they are correctly linked one another thru HREF tags (no flash links), that's because i red somewhere that Googlebot needs all the pages to be linked one another to deeply scan my website... the problem is that Googlebot never came back visiting my website in 2 or 3 months now (i can see this thru my web/browsers stats...). I already submitted twice my URL but, except a visit in the early days of new life of my website, Googlebot never came back... What can i do now? Thanks for any suggestion that you may have for me, and again thanks Lupine! t.

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