Google = Sticky Situation
As it may be obvious, we just finished the redesign and restructuring of Fingertech. To promote our services, obviously being the Internet-based business we are, we are relying heavily on the Internet and specifically search engines like Google. After about a week of waiting to be reindexed, our site has yet to be recrawled or reindexed. Of course, this presents a problem, as they have the old version of our site cached, which doesn’t have nearly the content of our new site.
So, to try to overcome the monster known as Google, we have subscribed to a number of Google services if it wasn’t apparent from viewing our homepage. One of their services, Google Sitemaps, is supposed to be designed to allow easier submission of your website to their Bot. Another feature within the Sitemaps program, is the ability to remove your website, specific urls, the site in the cache, etc from their index. Being as our site has been completely redesigned, we thought it would be beneficial to request that our website be removed from the cache so that old, expired content isn’t being directed towards potential visitors. However, after requesting that our site be removed, we were presented with a spectacular “DENIED” from Google to remove our highly outdated website from their cache.
So, I suppose the discussion on this post is whether Google necessarily uses any user, subscriber, visitor, customer, or any other person’s input in making their decisions whether to index a website or not.
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