crobb305 - 8:47 pm on Mar 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

Well I have a bit of information regarding the success of the url removal.

In November 2004, there were as many as 20 urls that were NOT mine showing in a site:mysite.com search. These urls were mostly tracker2's. But, after Google had associated those tracker2s with my site, it then began associating all redirects it found with my site. Incidentally, the site: search is supposed to show only urls that are truely part of your site. If it shows unrelated urls (and certainly 20 unrelated urls) then there is a problem.

So, I began submitting those urls to Google Removal tool. Since the redirects ultimately landed on my page (destination page), I had control of it's removal using robots metatag. The last one was removed in late January. Unfortuantely, nothing has changed. My site is still MIA. There are still some unrelated urls showing in the site: search since the redirect was removed prior to my learning about the removal tool. Those remaining urls were last cached on Nov 2, and until Googlebot revisits them it will never know they no longer redirect to me. I am convinced that there is nothing we can do. Google is just broken and they don't care. When I search for my company name, my home page is no where to be found. Rather, dozens of scraper/directory style sites with 0 pagerank are listed. Very pathetic and sad.

Chris