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    • optimalspaces
      optimalspaces last edited by

      Why is google still looking at my old indexed pages and not my new index. ?

      Why are they crawling my old website links when none of them are available?

      How do I overcome these problems?

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      • Ian_Lewis
        Ian_Lewis last edited by

        Hi,

        I wonder if other sites are still linking to your old pages. Have you checked in analytics if you're receiving any traffic?

        As far as I'm aware Google will index pages if they're crawable.

        Have you considered adding no index tags to the pages you no longer want indexed?

        Another tip is to submit a new XML sitemap to Google via Google search console. This should essentially tell Google what pages are preferred in your site.

        Hope this helps.

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