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I just rebuilt an old site with all new pages. The old pages don’t exist on the site any more, but are still in the search index. I’m redirecting all the old pages to new pages. So far so good.
The problem is that one of those old pages had an incorrect title tag. The title tag was “Three Minute Therapy” which had nothing to do with that page.
Thus when an internet searcher now searches today for the title, “Three Minute Therapy,” they get that old page in the search results–a page which shouldn’t be in the search results at all, except for the fact that it had that incorrect title tag. When they click on the link in their search results, my redirect dutifully and rightly sends them to the new, improved page, which also has nothing to do with Three Minute Therapy.
What can I do to get that old page un-indexed quickly?
Here’s the old page:
[URL=http://www.glenbridgepublishing.com/html/keep_your_wits_bio.htm]http://www.glenbridgepublishing.com/html/keep_your_wits_bio.htm
You can try for yourself: simply type Three Minute Therapy into Google, and see Michelle Gall’s bio (the old page) in the search results. When you click on it, you’ll get my redirect to the new version of Michelle Gall’s bio.
Thank you for anyone who can shed light on this. I promised my clients some improvements in search, but this one remaining issue is too technical to explain to them. It just looks bad. My guess is that the page will go away eventually, but I’d like it to go away NOW.
Linda ?