Removing Old/wrong content from google

Removing Old/wrong content from google

1. Create the new page
2. In .htaccess (if Linux) add a RedirectPermanent command
3. DO NOT DELETE THE OLD FILE
4. Update all the links on your website to point to the new page (change the link text while you’re at it)
5. Verify that no pages point to the old file (including your sitemap.xml)
6. Add a noindex,nofollow to the old file AND Disallow in your robots.txt
7. Submit your updated sitemap.xml to Google & Yahoo
8. Wait a few weeks
9. When the new page appears in Google, it’s safe to delete the old one

Googlebot and Robots.txt SEO Info

When deciding which pages to crawl, Googlebot goes in this order

1. Googlebot will obey the first record in the robots.txt file with a User-agent starting with “Googlebot.”
2. If no “Googlebot User-agent exists, it will obey the first entry with a User-agent of “*”

Google User-agents

Googlebot

crawl pages from our web index and our news index

Googlebot-Mobile

crawls pages for our mobile index

Googlebot-Image

crawls pages for our image index

Mediapartners-Google

crawls pages to determine AdSense content. We only use this bot to crawl your site if you show AdSense ads on your site.

Adsbot-Google

crawls pages to measure AdWords landing page quality. We only use this bot if you use Google AdWords to advertise your site. Find out more about this bot and how to block it from portions of your site.

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