Appspot website is yet to be deleted.

[Masaō Ashtine]

Hi everyone,

Sorry if this has an obvious answer but I submitted a request to Google to have my website fitzmcrweb.appspot.com deleted and although a 404 error is thrown when the website is called, this website still shows up on search engines instead of my new website, mcr.fitz.cam.ac.uk. It has been long past the 7 days grace period and I know my new website will take some time before indexing fully kicks (right now it does not appear on google when 'fitz mcr' is searched) in but I was wondering how I can go about fully removing the appspot site and it's content so that people are not led to a dead end. 

Many thanks!

[Vinny P]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Masaō Ashtine <mash...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry if this has an obvious answer but I submitted a request to Google to have my website fitzmcrweb.appspot.com deleted and although a 404 error is thrown when the website is called, this website still shows up on search engines instead of my new website, mcr.fitz.cam.ac.uk. It has been long past the 7 days grace period and I know my new website will take some time before indexing fully kicks (right now it does not appear on google when 'fitz mcr' is searched) in but I was wondering how I can go about fully removing the appspot site and it's content so that people are not led to a dead end. 

To be honest, it would have been better if you didn't delete your AppSpot website. If you still had access to the application ID, you could have configured a 301 redirect to move traffic from your appspot address to your new address, and your new website would have received the search ranking strength of the old appspot address. Any site that did link to your appspot address will now show a dead end, since they don't necessarily know your new address.

As for removing the appspot site, I tried a few searches and it looks like Google has completely removed your appspot site from its index. However Bing still shows your old website as the top search result, and still has some cached web pages: http://imgur.com/tGh9com

In short: yes it looks like your appspot content was completely removed, but you'll need to wait a while for your new website to gain the same search ranking as before.

 

 

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-Vinny P

Technology & Media Consultant

Chicago, IL

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