You Deleted It. The Crawler Still Sees It.

I removed two listings from a directory site I run. Not for a small reason — they failed the one promise the directory exists to make. The kind of removal you do immediately and double-check.

I did double-check. Flipped the flag in the database, loaded the site, watched the queries filter them out. Gone from the city pages, gone from the main directory. Removal confirmed.

A day later, both were still on the site.

Not on some cached page or stale CDN edge. In the current, freshly deployed HTML — sitting in the exact lists I had watched them disappear from. I had verified the deletion in one document. The site is two.

A rendered site is two documents