[thelist] Google and Indexing problem

graham.hays graham.hays at visualcomputing.co.uk
Tue Feb 3 09:31:31 CST 2009


Thanks Roel - I thought it was just me missing something!

Cheers
Graham 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org 
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Roel Mulder
> Sent: 03 February 2009 16:04
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Google and Indexing problem
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 404's tend to stay around (that is being mentioned as such by 
> Google) for weeks. If you know it is fixed, for the sake of 
> your health, ignore the webmaster tools telling you otherwise.
> And even as URLs render a 404 according to Google, these very 
> pages may still remain present in their index for several weeks.
> 
> On the other hand, adding a page, you may find it indexed 
> within minutes...
> 
> Cheers,
> Roel Mulder
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:05 PM, graham.hays 
> <graham.hays at visualcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I've been working on a client site and despite resubmitting 
> a sitemap 
> > to Google, the Webmaster Tools still shows 404 and "Errors 
> for URLs in 
> > Sitemaps" despite the fact the page has been deleted and is 
> not in the 
> > current sitemap.xml. (and neither is it in any link in the site)
> >
> > Google shows the sitemap as being updated 15 hours ago (the 
> file was 
> > deleted and an earlier sitemap - also without the file being 
> > referenced - submitted several days earlier).
> >
> > SO how do I get rid of this kind of error? Or is it just a case of 
> > waiting on Google? And if so when should I expect the error to go?
> >
> > Graham
> >
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