Google still caching old site

[Primate]

Hi all,

We just acquired a new domain that was being squatted on by a reseller for a very long time and on the 5th June migrated our site over to it, replacing their advertising holding page. The domain is http://primate.co.uk

It's been a week now though and Google hasn't seemed to have updated it's cache. Doing a search for 'primate.co.uk' in Google lists the site but with the old holding page description. Web master tools doesn't report any errors or issues with the site.

Does anyone know how we can get Google to index the domain and update it's cache?

Cheers,

Gordon

[oznappies]

Since the site has been stale for sometime, have a look at the crawl graph to get an idea of how often Google visits and follow Ryan's advice to give it a nudge.

[AlanBleiweiss]

Ryan's spot-on.  sitemap.xml submission + patience = #ProblemSolved

[RyanKent]

When Google crawls the page again, they will make the update. So what can you do to get them to crawl the page sooner?

First and foremost, submit a new sitemap if you have not already done so. This lets Google know you have new content or a change, and wish the site to be crawled.

There are other things you can do, but this really should work fairly quickly. If you wish to be a bit more aggressive, sending a single tweet out with the URL saying something like "we just recently acquired http://primate.co.uk" can help as well. Google scans tweets and may pick up on it that way as well.