(Entry was posted by Girish Kapoor on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 08/28/2014).

Is there a way to delete Google Cache of Old website pages

Is there a way to delete Google Cache of Old website pages

Google bot keeps coming to my sites i manage looking for pages from back in 1999. I mean come on its already 2014. Is there a way to stop google to look for these old pages??

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Girish Kapoor: Is there a way to delete Google Cache of Old website pages

Google bot keeps coming to my sites i manage looking for pages from back in 1999. I mean come on its already 2014. Is there a way to stop google to look for these old pages?
Edwin Jonk: As long as there are links pointing to the old page, Google will follow them. I don't think you can stop Googlebot, unless you block the page in robots.txt. But that might be sub-optimal especially when you serve a 301 on the old URL.