Website relaunched: Both old pages and new pages indexed
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Hi all,
We have recently made major changes to our website and relaunched it. We have changed URLs of some pages. We have redirected old URLs to new before taking website live. When I check even after one week, still the same old and new pages also indexed at Google. I wonder why still old pages cache is there with Google. Please share your ideas on this.
Thanks
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No...that's gone after a week around.
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Hi vtmoz!
Did the issue you described here still present?
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Used only Fetch for complete website. Not for individual pages.
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Have you used Google's Fetch and Render tool on the URLs?
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