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After deleting a web page it still shows in the search engines, why? – SEO

I am new to this but I was asked to help out at work with modifications of our web site, one of the first things I was asked to do was remove the page for a product we no longer stock. I removed the page and links so when you are on the site you do not have the option to even see the product.

So before changes where made you would navigate to “http://example.com” when pressing on lighting you would navigate to “http://example.com/lightbulb” showing the inventory.

Now with the changes in place there is no way to navigate to the product because it was removed when I type “http://example.com/lightbulb” in my url I get 404 page can not be found which is the desired behavior.

But when performing a Google search on “light bulb”, Google is listing http://example.com/lightbulb as a an available domain with the same summary as before. Obviously when navigating to it, you get the 404 error, page can not be found,

What did I forget to do, so that search engines no longer list http://example.com/lightbulb with the summary?

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    It takes time for the search engines to update. In the meantime, you can add a “HTTP-301 Permanently Moved” redirect-script in the /lightbulb directory, by creating an ‘index.php’-file and adding this code:

    header('Location: http://example.com/', true, 301);
exit;

    It will tell browsers and search engines that the new URL for your page is http://example.com/

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    Google robots does not crawl the website everyday but after a certain interval.

    I would suggest you to create an account on Google Webmaster tools and check your website’s indexing status.

    Moreover using the tool, you can also make a request to Google to re-index your website.

    Hope it helps you some extent.

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