Google has reverted back to a cache of my site containing info that is no longer even available on my site. Anybody else seeing this?
I've seen pages come up in the top 10 of the google serps for one of my keywords that had been gone for more years than I can remember (that specific case is gone now, but still). So yeah, it's pretty normal to have old, disappeared pages stay in the google cache.
my pages were just redirected using a 301 redirect from (mysite.com/page) to www.mysite.com/my page) could that be the reason and if so will that resolve itself overtime?
If the 301 is in place then it will resolve itself. Try submitting a google sitemap to get google spidering the pages.
I assume the sitemap links only to the new pages? In that case you are set. Google should ditch the old pages with its next crawl of your site. This may still take a while though. Try to find sites that link to the old pages and ask them to change the links to the new pages. That will at least stop the old pages from ranking.
Maybe resubmitting the sitemap will trigger a crawl. Adjust the crawl speed to "fast" as well. kh7 : nothing wrong with old pages ranking as long as they 301 to the new page.
I think its part of the New GFU(Google Fuss Up) . Basically, 2 of my new sites have old caches starting from about Christmas....
I have also seen a lot of old cached pages show up again, even though Google crawls the site every day. Around December 20th my visitors almost disappeared, just to come back a little bit a couple of days after. I am guessing that something went wrong at Google since when you logged in to you web master central it said No pages were indexed one minute even if they seemed to be in their index, only to show up as indexed again a little bit later. I have read on Danish message boards about a lot of messed up web sites, businesses closed and a lot of other problems. So he/she is right. Another Google messup