Getting Google to Know My Changes

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I just deleted some pages on my site which I also had on article directories (duplicate content). How long before Google finds these changes. Should I ping the old URLs so that Google knows they don't exsist anymore.

Any other way to speed things up?
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeroosa
    You can login to Google Webmaster and tell Google to delete those pages from the index. I've done this before with a whole site, but haven't done individual pages but I almost positive you can. Give it a try.
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    • Profile picture of the author royaltyw
      Google will report a not found error for those pages. You need to keep those pages on the hosting account and create a 404 page for those pages, and edit those pages meta data for robot to "noindex" and "noarchive".
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  • Profile picture of the author octavyo
    Pinging is a good option in this case and will ensure that Google will visit your website and index/deindex the new things within 24 hours in most of the cases
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