googlebot using old sitemap

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by xtreme fever, Oct 6, 2008.

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    googlebot is looking for pages that i had in an old sitemap. since then i have moved those pages and updated my sitemap and resubmitted many times and yet, googlebot seems to follow the old sitemap which is over 2 weeks old.
     
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    Do a 301 redirect from the old pages, if you moved them to new URLs to keep the PR.
     
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    yeah i figured. just didn't think it would still crawl the old sitemap after 2 weeks.
     
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    somehow my sitemap got messed up and some of the urls got removed. the pages itself didn't move. it's a new site so i'm not that worried about it. i am using a txt file but, i'm switching over to xml so the engines can be updated automaticly.

     
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    You can upload your new sitemap to google, i hope every one is aware of same.
     
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    i already did that many times, see op

     
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