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I went thru a site redesign in May that left an unused directory, I restricted the directory thru the robots,txt till it was gone in most search engines, including google. I then put a permanent redirect to the main index page.
Now after month’s google has the 50+ pages back with an April cache date and can be found in the serps, is google having problems, reverting to old data? The 301 redirect is still up, I would prefer to do that instead of a 404, still a few paged in other search engines.
I have a bunch of 301'd pages from before april and may that are "fully indexed"
I am finding more and more 404's as results from my personal searches.
I'm sure hundreds of people here are seeing the same thing, take this advice, if you are looking for something for your own personal interest, try a different search engine, that's what many of my visitors seem to be doing (according to my logs) and that's what I am doing. Google has been my home page for almost two years... but then again, so was alta vista for a while....
Google is showing the cache of the pages which were indexed before you put the robot.txt. So google has the caache of your old pages. This should not stay for long. However such things keeps happening as and when google is doing some resuhufle such as before major updates etc.
Even i've noticed that google has lately started showing a lots of supplimental resuts(the pages which were once online but aren't there anymore)
Someone out here must be able to tell you a way to even bar google from showing the old cache or remove them permanently if you want so.
Used the removal console tool and it gave me an error saying disallow wild cards are not allowed, removed them from the robots file and tried again, now showing pending for removal.
Thanks again
The backlink mess, reappearing pages that haven't existed for months, no PR update... something in hinkey in Denmark.
