another sitemaps question

[seaford77]

I have been using sitemaps with no problems that i know of, i thought it helped to get you pages indexed.

i used the idiot guide from Google and used my ftp XML checker to make sure the coding was correct and Google ok'd it.

My new problem Is that i have recently changed the names of my web pages in the web site
creator (front-page), i have updated my XML site map to accompany my
new page names, in fact i deleted the old site map and inserted a whole
new one.

The problem is that Google is still listing the old pages as 404's,
obviously i know this is because they do not exist any more and they
are not even on my new site map but how do tell Google this, or will it
update itself in time?.

It is also saying that the 404's are on the site map but they are not
they are on the old deleted site map.

[seaford77]

correct me if i am wrong as i am not that experienced with webs in general but i used this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
- <urlset xmlns="http://www.example.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84">
- <url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/index</loc>
<lastmod>2006-02-21T11:45:33+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
etc
etc

Google ok'd it, i thought the whole sitemaps was to get your pages indexed faster and make them more accessible?

[Vadim]

Google may keep your URL several months.

If you would like to remove it quickly, Google has the manual removal tool on their site.
[google.com...]