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  1. 03-27-2006 07:54 PM #1
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    Question Old Pages Reappeared

    Well over a year ago I changed a few pages around. G picked up on the change and the new pages were cached and ranking well in the SERPs.

    Aprox. 3 weeks ago the new pages disappeared and cache is showing the old pages again. Needless to say those pages have dropped waaaaay down the SERPs.

    I want my new (moneymaking) pages back!

    Any thoughts if this is due to the updating G is doing? Do I sit tight and give it more time? Start writing poison pen letters to G? Throw up my hands and admit I haven't the foggiest idea?
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    Kim - today i've seen the craziest mix of crap that i've seen in a while.

    sites that were banned have now come back into the index (and are ranking strongly).... certain subdomain spam has re-appeared on several domains, and some of my pages that were dropped about 2 weeks ago are back....

    what gives? G is toying with us....

    i don't want to make any predictions or assumptions, but right now it seems like it's just the opposite of florida.... instead of sites/pages getting dropped, they're coming back!
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    I had that issue with the domain transfer experiement (mostly with Y! but a bit with G too). It happenes when they roll back a server and the old extinct pages reappear in the SERPs, often erasing the newer content. A year is a long time in G, but Y! keeps bringing back pages that were killed over 3 years ago! It's very frustrating.

    I suggest you 301 those pages to the newer content and if you don't have content that matches point them at your home page. Then block the old pages with your robots.txt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rmccarley
    I suggest you 301 those pages to the newer content and if you don't have content that matches point them at your home page. Then block the old pages with your robots.txt.
    That's exactly what I'm going to do, thanks.
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  5. 03-29-2006 10:56 AM #5
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    Old pages turn up regularly in Google - I've seen it many times in the past few months.

    They go away again though...

    I used to 301 them, but then they came back again - it seems to be when Google are fiddling and spuddling.

    Each time it happens, I fill out the "remove these pages from the index" form for 5 or 10 of them - little-by-little, less of them reappear.

    I played with an over complicated 404 page for a while, but it got too time consuming, so I just let people crash land...

    Google quite often reinclude parts of their older index databases... I wonder why?

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    I also remember people complaining about Yahoo still showing Google results and it was a matter of them never erasing their old cookies
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