Old trashed items come up first on Google

  • Resolved happiercat

    (@happiercat)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,
    My self-hosted website is my name. When I Google my name the 2nd thing that comes up is one of the first experimental posts, which I long ago trashed.

    The next thing that comes up is myname/author/myusername. The description under that is “skip to content”, then a list of several categories.

    The next thing is an old experimental menu item name that had appeared in the top line of tabs, but this had been trashed at least a week ago.

    After that things are ok, but what am I doing wrong? Why does this stuff still live long after I trashed it???
    I’m very much a beginner (obviously). Thanks for any help!

    ps. I have put up new stuff, but that doesn’t show up in Google.

    [moved second post to first one – unanswered posts are more likely to get replied to]

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  • jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    you’re not doing anything wrong. google crawls the net looking for content and when it finds it it lists it whatever it is, no matter how old or how temporary you intended it to be.

    it stores a cached copy of it and the link to it stays live. i assume that when it’s clicked in google it takes you to your site but to a 404 page rather than the post in question?

    your newer stuff will take time to show up in google as millions of pages and trillions of words are created online daily.

    Thread Starter happiercat

    (@happiercat)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you for your response. (Apologies for delay, I couldn’t get to a computer for a while.) It was reassuring.

    I have now found that there’s a place where you can enter your URL to Google, which I did. The result is that one of the 5 URLs I entered did show up higher, and the old bits are no longer on the first page of results.
    Thanks again!

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