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: Google search engine not removing old pages I have a website and yesterday I renamed all the HTML files to appropriate names to help them show up in searches better. For example one of my

@Berryessa370

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I have a website and yesterday I renamed all the HTML files to appropriate names to help them show up in searches better. For example one of my pages was called logic.html now its called logic_gates_and_truth_tables.html.

I submitted a new site map to Google and told it to recrawl my site and today I did a site:example.com search and the search results had doubled because it kept"logic.html" in its results and added a new result called logic_gates_and_truth_tables. As you would expect when clicking the old link it gives you a "page not found" error.

How can I get Google to remove the old pages and only list the newly renamed pages?

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@Welton855

This question already has been answered here.

The short version is that it can take up to 30-60 days for Google to remove them from the index. Let the pages display a 404, as they do now, and after a while Google will stop looking for them and remove them from the index.

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