How long does it take Google to drop a page if it's continuously not found; 404?


PS: Why doesn't my avatar show up? It's 64x64, it that too big?

I am not sure about your first question but I imagine within 2 weeks but it depends how often Google spidered the page.

Your avatar shows for me!?

Originally posted by TimSchroeder
Your avatar shows for me!?

Oh, I had it disabled in my profile, duh.

You know, I have 404ed pages that have been in Google for years. It is pretty annoying, yet irritating.

my site www.maldivescards.com was expired and it was blank for more than a month and i was looking to re-register it and it was registered by some other guys who buy expired domains by using back-order.

i search google and the domain is still in google however when i search dmoz.org its removed.

choa, xtravle

One of my expired domain names is still in google.. it is annoying just to look at.

Pages can stay in Google for many months. We changed our entire site layout, and all page names for optimisation etc. but they were still in Google, and we were still gettin errors in the error log from people looking for the pages 4+ months later.

Just get rid of the pages, or better still replace them with 301 redirects to the new page. Make sure you're new pages are linked well so that Google picks them up real quick and replaces your old pages so you don't lose traffic