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How to clear cached mobile pages, new responsive site launched

Old cached mobile results still live and have direct to home page message

         

rusj407

5:30 pm on Jul 31, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Client just launched responsive web site.

Last month Google sent them the "Fix broken smartphone redirects on..." email from Google Webmaster Tools team. The email states, "Therefore, to make this clearer to users, whenever such redirecting pages appear in our smartphone search results, we will add an annotation in the search results to notify users that clicking on the link might take them to the site’s homepage instead." The Smartphone Crawl Errors report is not providing any of the errors to resolve.

My question: What are the steps to inform Google WMT team that a new 'responsive' site has been launched to resolve the 'broken smartphone redirects'?

I would like to have any annotation in the search results removed as soon as possible.

I went ahead via Fetch Google and submitted a group of mobile urls to let them know things have changed, but is this enough.

Any experience with this, ways to remove the old listings or is it a sit and wait scenario?

Thanks

Russ

not2easy

6:21 pm on Jul 31, 2014 (gmt 0)

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How does the site handle caching? That is where you can temporarily change things and then reinstate caching. How and what to do depends entirely on how you are caching various filetypes presently.

rusj407

6:33 pm on Jul 31, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, not2easy, I am not sure at the moment but will pass this on to have them check and see if this impacts the results.