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How can I make it not appear in the top 10?
It has several links coming in but I don’t want it to appear in top 10
How can I do this?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Nick
[edited by: Nick_W at 1:46 pm (utc) on June 15, 2003]
Alternately strip the content right back, including strong kw density.
may i ask why?
Hmmmm... Remove some of the keywords on that pages that are pulling high.
Put a robots.txt and disallow your site.
Go to google manual removal system and enter your site. Your site will be gone in 1 day.
Anyway, robots.txt will work pretty fast!
Of course robots.txt and manual removal are the way to go, but I find it interesting how hard this process might be if these methods were not available.
Why does PR without content give you high serps?
The robots, and manual exclusion via G, are certainly the quickest, but still the question is:
What are the motivations for doing this, and are you thinking permenently, or on a temporary basis?
Until that is answered, then i'm afraid the advice could be contrary to what you wish to achieve!
It doesn't. It helps, but anchor text in backlinks does much more.
Some hidden text should do the trick! ;)
No, he said he didn't want to appear in the top 10. :)
Alternately strip the content right back, including strong kw density.
yep, i'd say that too
SEO 2 : Deal... watch this [posts "I don't want to appear in the top 10" thread...]
No, actually one of my clients asked that too :)
Dutch site but most important keywords are the same in Dutch as in English... attractd too many foreign visitors. Haven't completely figured it out yet, still working on it.
Suggestions (if you don't want to ban the site completely): use robots exclusions, tweek titles for top ranking pages, change url's (file names), ask site owners with inbound links to change the anchor text or drop the link completely, remove/change internal links/anchor text and link titles...
is this the robots.txt file?
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
2 lines of code?
that's it?
[edited by: bird at 9:42 pm (utc) on June 15, 2003]
Its not really that quick to remove a site in the way you want, nor can you (as far as I am aware) just switch it back onto its original positioning.
If you do one of the simpler options, like ban robots or change the title tag to something bland, it will take some months to drop out of high Google serps, particularly if you have been there some time.
A couple of months ago I was giving a site a makeover and switching between index pages for the client to see. Clean forgot to put a new title tag in and next Google up date, no title, but same excellent serps.
Even when legitimtely closing down a site (hotel owner closing the hotel, but wanting re-directs to his new hotel)still took months to disappear from Google.
As far as I can see, the only way to get sudden drop in Google serps is to use spam techniques that will get the site banned (yep, that works)...but it will proably take you a year, if ever, to get it back again :(
A "wakeup call" would be to discontinue aiding them in whatever it is you do. Once they fall in the rankings they will appreciate what you did and come back begging.
But sneaking a robots.txt file into their site to get them deleted from all the search engines is unethical.
But than again, who am I to preach ethics....
I don't even know the entire stituation.
Adding in a robots text file might make things a little obvious.
Would the log files be able to trace it back to me?
I do want to reinstate the site after this wake up.
Why not "NOINDEX" crucial pages? The bots will be in the logs & it's easy enough to get the pages back in the index.
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex">
You have access to someone's site so you are going to destroy their rankings in-order to intimidate them for money?
I yank the whole site for refuse-to-pay-ups, and I hate doing it. Sounds like a nicer way to get a check in the mail--webmaster contrived Google penalty. ;)
I yank the whole site for refuse-to-pay-ups, and I hate doing it. Sounds like a nicer way to get a check in the mail--webmaster contrived Google penalty. ;)
A client refuses to pay yet still allows a SEO access to his site?
"Adding in a robots text file might make things a little obvious.
Would the log files be able to trace it back to me? I do want to reinstate the site after this wake up."
This implies that the client is still a client and is paying. But maybe this SEO thinks he deserves even more money for the great ranking.
Regardless, it's an unethical thing to do and helps give SEO's a bad name.
The SEO's who do this are probably the same one's who use hidden text on their clients sites to link back to themselves.
If they violate our written contract with reagrds to paying for their hosting, I warn, warn, warn, then yank.
If you find this unethical, I'd be willing to refer these deadbeats to your host-of-choice. :)
Yes, its a wake up call to the site owner.
If you are hosting their account (and have sufficient access to the server), simply rename their web directory.
Say it is currently '/www/sitename', rename it to '/www/sitename.off'. That will kill their site until they see things your way.
Once you reach an agreement, rename it back to the old name and they'll see traffic again. Note that this would not only kill search engine traffic, their site would be dead to the world.
