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I recently moved my blog to WordPress.com from my own Web space and I am still getting a lot of 404 errors from people trying to find this content where it used to be. As I know that Google is already indexing this location, all I need to do is remove this content from the Google cache.

It turns out that I have a few choices, one of which was to do nothing and let the content expire. For me, this was the best choice as I still have content (or will have, eventually) at the old location that I want Google to index. If I remove the site from the search entirely, Google wont come back for 90 days (if I’m reading their instructions right). Another choice was to remove the URL’s individually, which might actually work because a WordPress blog usually uses the domain.com/date address format, so as I only have content going back to 1999 that’s just 8 lines I have to block.

What I thought was really great though, is that Google have a support section for Webmasters that explains everything you can do, so if you’re ever looking at how to do something about how your site displays on Google, go here!