: Several notes on this topic can be found in How can I get Googlebot to notice a 301 redirect? and Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? from Google

Several notes on this topic can be found in How can I get Googlebot to notice a 301 redirect? and Is there a limit to how many 301 (Permanent) redirects I can do on a site? from Google Webmaster Help channel at YouTube.

You should redirect your old URLs to the new ones using 301 HTTP status code and patiently wait. Nothing is really broken, traffic from search engines and old links is redirected.

Quote from the video: If you really want to de-index an old page, you can always just remove it with the URL removal tool. And I believe we just not too long ago launched something we can fetch something as Googlebot, and so if you want to refresh a page that's in the index, after you fetched it as Googlebot, I think you might have the ability to submit that to the index. So that's a pretty nice amount of functionality. You can't just say, hey refresh everything. I think fetch as Googlebot is limited to something like 50 fetches per week or something along those lines. But if there's one important page that's changed, then it might make sense to do it for that page. Now I'm not 100% sure whether that will work with 301 redirects, or just if you've updated the text on the page. So you might want to do a little bit of a test along those lines.

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