We recently transitioned a site to our server, but Google is still showing the old server's urls. Is there a way to stop Google from showing urls?
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We recently transitioned a site to our server, but Google is still showing the old server's urls. Is there a way to stop Google from showing urls?
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Deep Crawl is great for large sites
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I would recommend using deepcrawl.com on your old domain so you can remap / rewrite the old domain and its URLs so if the URLs are rewritten it will help your new website a least it would minimize the damage.
To answer your question correctly yes why not 301 redirect thing you are going to lose any authority your old domain has yes it's bad.
Use archive.org it might have a copy of your entire site structure start form there.
Do you have backups?
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Unfortunately, we did not do 301 redirects for the entire site and now we don't have the old urls to create the 301 redirects. Is this going to cause serious problems with Google by not having 301 redirects?
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I agree that keeping the site map is definitely going to lead Googlebot to your site much faster and you should use Fech as a Googlebot on the entire site
Be certain that you have done a page page 301 redirect for the entire site. After that you can look into using this method of removing Data from Google's Index cache
I recommend not removing this unless it is doing damage to your site
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663691?hl=en
How to remove outdated content
<a class="zippy index1 goog-zippy-header goog-zippy-collapsed" tabindex="0">Remove a page that was already deleted from a site from search results</a><a class="zippy index2 goog-zippy-header goog-zippy-expanded" tabindex="0">Remove an outdated page description or cache</a>
Follow the instructions below if the short description of the page in search results (the snippet) or the cached version of the page is out of date.
- Go to the Remove outdated content page.
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No problem! Here is a pretty comprehensive list of resources. I personally use ScreamingFrog.
Good luck!
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Perfect sense. Thank you. Do you know of any good tools that will create an xml site map of at least 19,000 pages?
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Hi again!
Every page should be on the sitemap so long as it's not behind a login or not supposed to be seen by search engines or users. I would update it and make sure pages aren't noindexed or blocked in your robots.txt. It shouldn't be limited to just your top navigation. Search engines will still crawl and see those deeper pages (not top nav) exist, but uploading them to the sitemap will help expedite the indexing process.
Does that make sense?
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Thanks for getting back to me. It's the same domain so no change of address needed. We did upload a new site map, but the new site map only has 100 pages on it where the old site map had 19,000. Does the site map need every page on it or just the top navigation pages?
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Hi Stamats
Did you update your sitemap xml and also submit it to Webmaster Tools? If you changed your domain, you should look into a change of address as well, but only if you changed your domain name.
Keep in mind that it could take Google a little bit to notice these changes, so do your best to help them notice these changes by the steps above.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you need anything else!
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