Cached pages still showing on Google

[aspenchicago]

We noticed our QA site showing up on Google so we blocked them in our robot.txt file. We still had an issue with them crawling it so we blocked the site from the public. Now Google is still showing a cached version from the first week in March. Do we just have to wait until they try to re-crawl the site to clear this out or is there a better way to try and get these pages removed from results?

[aspenchicago]

Thanks for all the help.

[GeorgeDavis]

You can submit a removal request directly to Google.  Keep in mind the have a set of guidelines for this.

Edit: Mike is quicker on the draw as usual

[Mike.Goracke]

Hi Mark,

It can sometimes take a while for those cached pages to disappear.

You can either:

• Wait for them to be removed naturally.
• You can request Google remove them from their index.

As long as it isn't a huge deal if the public can see those pages, I would let the process happen naturally. If the public can see privileged information, I would go with the removal request.

Hope this helps.

Mike