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My blog was successfully transferred to octopress and github-pages. My problem though is that website's search uses google search but the result of 'search' as you can see, are pointing to the old (wordpress) links. Now these links have change structure, following default octopress structure.

I don't understand why this is happening. Is it possible for google to have stored in it's DB the old links (my blog was 1st page for some searches, but gathered just 3.000 hits / month... not much by internet's standards) and this will change with time, or is it something I'm able to change somehow?

thanks.

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1.You can wait for Google to crawl and re-index your pages, or you can use the URL Removal Request tool to expedite removal of old pages from the index. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61062
According to that page, the removal process "usually takes 3-5 business days."

Consider submitting a Sitemap: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318
click here to resubmit your sitemap.

More information about Sitemaps:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34575 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8467 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8477 https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/protocol.html

2.Perhaps your company might consider the Google Mini? You could set up the Mini to crawl the site every night or even 'continuously'.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/

According to the US pricing page, the Mini currently starts at $1995 for a 50,000-document license with a year of support.

Here is the Google Mini discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Mini http://www.google.com/enterprise/hosted_vs_appliance.html (Click: "show all descriptions") http://www.google.com/support/mini/ (Google Mini detailed FAQ)

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  • https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-custom-search-creating-and-editing/-4jRF057O_w by omr – Snger Oct 18 '12 at 07:00
  • Thanks for the extensive answer. I'll try to do all of these things and see what goes! Thanks! – patm Oct 18 '12 at 19:16
  • Apparently that didn't work. I did remove my page for google. And was removed entirely. Then I added the page back with a sitemap, but still the links that google displays are the wrong ones. I might need to wait until google's cache is fully update (which apparently will take too much time). I don't think that I can do anything else. – patm Oct 20 '12 at 18:37
  • Hello, I actually removed xCode - that was one big mess on Mountain Lion - macports and re-installed everything. Worked fine now! Also thanks for the the great RVM software! :-) – patm Oct 21 '12 at 19:23
  • Sorry, I just saw your message, re-installed is a good idea. :> – Snger Oct 22 '12 at 01:23