How to recover the site with new page file names

Google, keyword, web page, index, remove, Crawl

[abhishekkaushik]

I have created my site two month back and most of it's pages are indexed by Google. Website has good number of pages with small page length, since many of the pages had related content I decided to merge some pages and created web page with new file name.

Now the problem is when Google is crawling my site next time it is unable to find those old files (As I have deleted them). In Google webmaster diagnostic Google displays those files as URL not found.

Other grave problem is that since I have renamed my files and older files are still there in the Google's database, is Google going to consider my new files as duplicate, as they contains the same text that was copied from old pages

Is there any way by which I can remove those listed pages from Google's index. Somebody Help Me.....!

[sprock]

A solution could be to 301-redirect each of the old pages to the corresponding page with the merged content. This also has the advantage of preserving any incoming links you may have.

An easy way to implement 301-redirects is using RewriteRule lines in your .htaccess files.

[wheelie34]

As sprock suggested, add a line for each "not found" page to your htaccess file, example

Redirect 301 /old-page.htm http://www.example.com/new-page.htm

At least you already know what pages google can't find, this way they will slowely start to disappear.

[Robert Charlton]

If you don't have an .htaccess file, you might want to remove the old versions of the page from the Google index using a new feature of Google's Webmaster Tools. That way they won't be seen as dupes.

Take a look at this thread, just started, to find out more about it....

Removing Pages From Google Using Webmaster Tools
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