Dear All,

Our company's old website is still coming up online. Basically we have removed all the files from our hosting account so when click on that result it would take us to under construction page which is annoying.

I was wondering how I could fix it and what's the cause of it.

Many thanks,
Cedric

Basically we have removed all the files from our hosting account so when click on that result it would take us to under construction page which is annoying.Of course, that's what your links point to and that's what's at the URL being fed to Google. It may be annoying, but search engines can only index what we give them and what they discover by links. The rest of it is our responsibility, to get correct URLs fetched and indexed.

301 redirect (or rewrite) the old to the new and the problem will be solved. And change the links from one to the other.

Have you done either, or have you just removed the files from the old domain hosting so they're 404?

Hi,

I had same issue with old contents coming up in google search.

This is what I have done.

1. Submit a new xml sitemap and keep resubmitting every other day.
2. submit to dmoz and other directory websites
3. add individual web page removal request in google sitemap panel.

and..it seems like working now. All the old contents and url had been removed and new pages are getting indexed.

Good luck.

Like Marcia said, it would be best to use a 301 redirect to redirect users to your new pages.

If you want to remove content from Google's index, here is their "how to" page:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35301

Word of caution, be sure not to disallow via robots.txt any pages being redirected via 301. :)

I m totally agree with morica , The best option is to use a 301 redirect to redirect users to your new pages.