How Long Does It Take Google To Remove Dead Sites?
 

So with the recent thumblogger disaster I started to reuse some of my old posts only to realize Google still indexes the old ones so they blocking most of the potential SE traffic.


Twans sites have been down for close to a month but most of the dead links are still showing up in Google. How long will it take for them to deindex these?

Somewhere between 14 and 90 days normally. I think I mentioned it in the other thread but you can also try http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals it might still work even though you don't own the site. I know it definitely works for clearing the stale cache and snippets or for 404s on other people's sites. I'm not sure how it reacts when the server is down.

Thanks. it's been a month so I think I will wait and concentrate on making new content.

I contacted them to get some stuff removed, Yahoo does it a lot faster

google is an unpredictable creature

we work well with google, just use their tools and get in touch with them.
webmaster tools will allow you to request a delete the stuff i think.

thats not only 4040 pages, also changed pages cant be requested for google cache delete or recreation.

they will ask you to post the URL, a phrase of the changed site and thats it.
normally when we work on this it will take only 24 hours to get a respond.
you can send in several requests at once.

Why the hell do you want them to remove it????

Don't you see that there are people that have thousands of outbound links from there?
It will be a SEO knock out!
Do not make this happen faster than it should, give some time to recover. Please.

Sites are not removed anymore, they will always be somewhere in "The Cloud"!

If the site was a high authority site, it will take longer to be removed.

Thumblogger was a big one, so go figure...

google will now feed new sources with mass of traffic!