Well, if WebMaster Tools is any indication… at least two years!
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Found this little gem in my webmaster tools crawl errors. Its from a site I designed for my friend’s company who does non toxic painting. Here’s the clincher, the site is literally one month old, but the domain is much older. Now, WebMaster tools is giving me 404 errors for pages that the reporting tools says was discoved in 2006 & 2007?!?
I’m guessing that an old (and terrible looking) url used to point back to a page called id1.html because there’s no page called id1.html on the site, but there sure was when the domain used to belong to the “Strong River Quartet”
http://web.archive.org/web/20060824063112/http://www.strongriver.net/
So here’s what I’ve concluded… Google is re-spidering from old, cached urls… or using archive.org… I’ll tell you one thing, I’m redirecting that 404 page, just to see what happens…