Indexing old non-existent pages?

Just a quick question.

[kevin_m]

I am have been trying to get my pages up to speed with everything I have been learning here over the last couple months, this forum is excellent! I redid a a site and reworked the structure of it to get it spidered bettered. Well google is still indexing the old pages that do not exist anymore (gone for about a month) and during this update didn't seem to touch any of the new stuff. Does it some times take a couple google updates to get old data out and new pages in?

I also got listed in yahoo and dmoz mid month, maybe this was to late for this update?

[jdMorgan]

kevin_m,
The new index you are seeing now was created from pages indexed at the beginning of July. So that's
why your old pages are showing and the new ones are not.

Getting listed in ODP and Yahoo! directories is a very good thing. However, there is also a delay
from the time these directories first list your pages to when Google picks them up.

Depending on the timing of Google's spidering and their taking a new copy of the ODP directory, it
could be two or three months from the creation of a new page until it is *completely* "settled" in
Google's index and all benefits of the directory listings become visible to you.

In the mean time, you might consider restoring some of the old pages and placing links to the new
versions on those pages to help your visitors find them. Add the html robots meta tag to these
old pages and specify "noindex,follow" to avoid having these old pages remain in the index and to
tell the robots to follow the link to the new page.

An alternative would be to use a server redirect to return a server code of 301-Moved Permanently
to the users' browsers (and to Googlebot) and provide them with the new URL. You can do a site
search here on WebmasterWorld to learn more about these redirects. How you do it depends on
what server you are hosted on, and what privileges your hosting service grants you.

Hope this helps,
Jim

[kevin_m]

Thanks jdMorgan you cleared up all the questions I had. I'll look into those redirects.

Thanks again!