Hi there, I want to know that how to completely remove the old version of a website from Google before adding the new version of the same website. Any help will be highly appreciated. Regards bushib
In webmaster tools there's a facility to have old urls removed, but you have to satisfy certain conditions (be blocked by robots txt file or metatag etc)
I guess robots.txt will be a solution... It has a commands that prevents the robots from crawling certain pages of your website...
robots.txt or google webmaster tools removal.. You can use both of them... then disable both of them to let Google to crawl it again ..
Hi there, Thanks for the reply. In my situation, the old site has the same naming convention as the new site. I can't change the web pages names because otherwise I will lose page ranking. So please tell me which solution is best. I want to completely remove the old version from Google and add the new (fresh) pages of the same site with the same naming conventions. Regards bushib
Hi there, Yes naming convention referring to the URLs. I have the same URL names on both the old and new versions of the same site. Now how to remove the old one from Google and add the new with the same URL names. Any help will be appreciated. Regards bushib
do you mean you are replacing yourdomain.com/file.html with another file.html? Completely same file structure? If you are, just upload the new version, when google spiders it, it'll overwrite the old versions in google automatically.
Yes they will be spidered and the old webpages will be replaced by the new ones. No name to delete anything