Well I’m a bonehead.   So I’ve been rebuilding and fleshing out my search engine marketing site, http://snapfire.ca.  Recently I discovered some problems with the underlying database and rather than mess around with it too much I just built a new site and moved the sparse content over manually.  Since this site, http://lazaruk.com, is on the same database I had to do the same thing here. I discovered a number of interesting problems during the rebuild and I’ve been trying to post the technical details on Snapfire’s blog.  The emotional details are for here. What a mess I made. After I discovered that I had sitemap problems I took a look at Google and discovered that over the years I had amassed quite a collection of bad links in Google’s index.  Many of the “pages” that Google thought were on my site were old subdomains, like owa.snapfire.ca, or addresses that should never have had a web server answering them, like mail.snapfire.ca. So to clean all these out ...