annej - 2:53 pm on Oct 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

I really wish Google Guy would give us some suggestions on this. I have tried so many things.

For a while it seems to help having added a noindex to my custom 404 not found.

Then I tried linking the deleted pages from the homepage in hopes that Google would find them and see they had been deleted. That seemed to work temporarily but then they came back. Plus it looks terrible to have a list of deleted pages on your homepage.

Now I've dropped my custom 404s as someone suggested that. It doesn't seem to have helped.

I do think Google knows the pages are gone as they list them as supplimental. But why list deleted pages?

The other frustrating thing is the deleted pages still have the original PR while the identical pages with the new URL have no PR. <sigh>