Google bringing back old cached copies of pages in search after removal

[pmf123]

I am removing pages from Google Webmaster Tools using their removal tool, and selecting remove page and cache.

I make changes to the pages to eliminate the content i dont want to be seen in Google Search

Two months later the old cached page is back in search.

If im selecting remove cache, shouldnt it re-index this page again with the new content.

It is bringing the page back from my sitemap.

Anyone else experiencing this?

If I select cache removal only, does that work better?

[netmeg]

Set a robots directive of NOARCHIVE and avoid the cache issues altogether. That's what I do.

[pmf123]

Unfortunately thats not an option as it would destroy my traffic lol

[bhukkel]

Removing pages in WMT does not really mean removing, it is only filtered out for 2 or 3 months. If Google did not crawl your page within this timeframe the old page is displayed again.

You can try to "fetch as google" in WMT.

[webcentric]

Unfortunately thats not an option as it would destroy my traffic lol

NOARCHIVE is not the same as NOINDEX. What netmeg suggests should clean up the mess and shouldn't have any impact on your traffic.

[netmeg]

All NOARCHIVE does is keep your stuff from being cached. I don't have any reason for any site I have influence over (my own event sites, or client ecommerce sites) to show cached pages, with potentially old information, and personally I've never seen the good in cached pages (I mean the good to *me*) anyway.