Google search results/indexing

  • Resolved duncang17

    (@duncang17)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,
    I went live with my site yesterday, and have noticed the the Google search results show my home page link OK with the page description as I set it in the All-in-One settings.

    However the other listed pages (contact and products) still have the page descriptions from the old site and the links go to a 404 error page.

    Basically wondering if this is what normally happens during the Google indexing process and will the results eventually have the correct page links and descriptions (I heard this could take a few weeks). Or is there possible problems with my robots.txt or sitemap?

    My site is http://www.littlegraniteshop.co.uk

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  • Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    It could take Google anything from a few days to a few weeks to even a few months for them to index all your content and update their index with your new titles. You just have to be patient, there’s nothing you can do to speed up the process.

    Thread Starter duncang17

    (@duncang17)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Ok thanks for reply, rather annoying having the 404 pages on the subpage links but at least the home page link works OK!
    Hopefully the 404s will sort themselves out when the new titles are indexed.

    The results on the site:littlegraniteshop.co.uk page suggests all my pages have been indexed in last few days but I presume the new titles take longer to propogate to the proper google search results as you suggest.

    Cheers

    sammzand

    (@sammzand)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Try this
    https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

    It removes outdated contents from google search index.

    Thread Starter duncang17

    (@duncang17)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the link.

    I take it it’s best to use this tool (if I need to) after my new site has been completely indexed, as I have read that Googles crawlers will (hopefully!) naturally drop the outdated pages when the indexing process is complete?

    I have another general query:
    When creating my All-In-One Sitemap I left the “Post types” section boxes all checked as is the default. I’m now wondering if this was necessary or should I have just included main website pages in the sitemap.
    As it is I now have every individual gallery image in the sitemap (and every individual image on the website) leaving google 224 urls to index. Is this necessary or am I just creating unnecessary work for the google bots hence making the indexing of my site longer?

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by duncang17.
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