Hi All, just logged in to google sitemaps and noticed some 404 errors that google is reporting. Its showing old urls that i have taken down a couple of months ago and have not listed the url in the sitemap.xml file for at least 2 months. I have updated the sitemap.xml file at least 10 times during that time. What i don't get it is why google is saying that the URL is in the sitemap when it is not. Does anyone know if google keeps the sitemap.xml files cached?
I am having the same problems, and its very frustrating. It listed 12 url not found, i was able to use the url remover to have them taken out, and as soon as they were gone 4 older ones showed up.
This is the link http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller I haven't used it before so I just testing it with 2 urls. I have about 100 old urls that don't exist anymore so if this works, I will be submitting the lot of them.