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**jacks smith** · 09-26-2010, 11:39 AM

Hello friends,
Near 20 days before we update our website, we redesign and redevelop it, all the links are new, googel crawl our new website and it's include some new link on it's index but all the old links are still in google index. how these old links are remove on google index?

Thanks

**chrishirst** · 09-26-2010, 11:47 AM

By permanently redirecting them.

**Benmoore47** · 09-27-2010, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by chrishirst

By permanently redirecting them.

Then how? can you give us tips and instructions?

**merockysingh** · 09-27-2010, 04:36 AM

Use Google webmaster tool and then google will remove those URL.

**hotellasuite** · 09-27-2010, 07:34 AM

i am not sure but google removes 404 error pages automatically after some times

**kbrkal** · 09-27-2010, 10:55 AM

They will naturally fall out of the results within about 6 months. In the meantime to speed it up and to not loose any traffic you should do a 301 redirect fro the old links to the new ones.

**weathor** · 09-27-2010, 12:28 PM

If you want your urls to get deleted you have to make a robots.txt and Disallow them in there!

After some weeks you will see the results..
If not I dont think Google is going to delete any of them!!

**dWhite** · 09-27-2010, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by weathor

If you want your urls to get deleted you have to make a robots.txt and Disallow them in there!

After some weeks you will see the results..
If not I dont think Google is going to delete any of them!!

You must be an idiot.

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

By permanently redirecting them.

**chrishirst** · 09-27-2010, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weathor

If you want your urls to get deleted you have to make a robots.txt and Disallow them in there!

After some weeks you will see the results..
If not I dont think Google is going to delete any of them!!

Just in case anybody thinks this might just work (which it won't).

If the bots cannot index a URI because it is blocked, then they cannot verify whether the page exists or not. It will NOT be removed from the index but will remain as a URL only listing in the results.