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Wrong title and description

         

member22

12:10 pm on Jan 16, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

Google just caught my website url title and description as I was designing my website.

Since he caught it I changed theurl to a more seo friendly url as as the well as the title a description.

Is google going to come back on its own on my website and change the title , description and url or should I put a robot.txt for the current urls that he got ?

Thank you,

tedster

7:46 pm on Jan 16, 2009 (gmt 0)

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If I understand you properly, rhe best approach would be don't serve the url that you don't want indexed - make it a 404 Missing status.

Next to that, you can give googlebot a meta robots "noindex" tag which will drop the url completely. A robots.rxr tag will stop future spidering, but not necessarily drop the url from the index.

ZydoSEO

6:56 pm on Jan 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

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If the previous URL that is currently indexed has other sites linking to it already, I would suggest that you place a 301 redirect in place to redirect visitors, bots, etc. requesting the old URL to your new SEO friendly URL.

If the previous URL that is currently indexed has no inbound links then I would probably do as Tedster first suggested and delete the page so that your web server will return an http status 404 Not Found.

AnkitMaheshwari

1:12 pm on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

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As I understand, I believe you changed the URL as the previous URL was indexed by Google. Did you implement any 301 redirect from old to new, or simply changed the URL name?

Also, did you have any link pointing to this new URL for Google to find it?