Hey people

I have remade my site completely and when I search on Google my old pages are still listed, will these get deleted when my site is crawled again if not how do I delete them? (how often do they crawl new sites)
One more question... On my google webmaster tools I have got two 'top search queries' in position 3 & 7 is this what people are searching for and finding my site?

Thanks

You could always ping google that you have updated your site. Wordpress does it automatically and uses http://pingomatic.com/ for that.. This way you let Google know you have updated and it will crawl your site again

Will that matter that it's a website I need to update, ping-o-matic seems to be for blogs?

if those old pages are returning a 404 (not found) status, then search engine crawlers will notice that these pages are no longer available and they will be dropped from index after several fail attempt to crawl these pages.

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yea I have a few pages listed wit the 404 message but I guess I will just have to wait for Google to crawl my site again and loose them

Thanks fo your help

I was just concerned they would stay there forever lol

Dan

You can manually tell google to delete the pages that do not exist anymore.

Log onto Google webmaster tools and click on the url for the site.

Then click on "tools", which is on the left, and then "remove url's". Just follow the instructions on the page and google will delete those pages (but I think it takes about 2 days).

Yes, also look at the "top clicked queries" on the right side of the page. That list tell you how many people actually clicked on your site when they found you for a specific keyword.

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