Removing Cache from Yahoo!

Sepeeding up the process

[caspita]

Hi all,

I have decided to remove the cache for my pages from the SEs .. however, I'm still able to see the chache of my pages in Y!.

What I did was to enable the meta tag:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">

then for GG I went to their removal url and entered all the pages I wanted to be removed, they did it in about 12 hours .. and M$ is not showing cache anymore.. but Y! is still listing cache and I can not find a way to tell them to speed up the process.

Do you know people some Y! url that I can go to send the pages URLs and take them out of the cache .. similar to GG?

Thanks,
Me.

[jimbeetle]

Yahoo doesn't provide any specific tool, you can only use the meta tags and wait until its index is refreshed.

But I have to ask: The Google url removal tool is used to completely remove pages from the index, not just the cached copies. Are you sure that's what you wanted to do?

[caspita]

Hi jimbeetle,

Nope... the GG tool will do only what you need (or what the WebMaster indicates), once you submit the URLs another boot will come to check what you are asking for.. if you just put the tags to clear out the cache that is what will be done. To get pages removed from the index you need to use either a different meta tag "noindex?" or modify your robots.txt file, then submit the URLs.

I have used both whit no problem at all .. and later when I wanted my site back in the index I just cleaned my robots.txt file and site got re-indexed in a couple of weeks.

[jimbeetle]

Thanks for the clarification, caspita. I've read those pages a few times and never found anything that stated it as clearly, so have always been leery of pulling the nocache trigger that way. Now if I have to I can do it with confidence.

[Pambie]

I've been following this because I am trying to get a cached page off of Yahoo Search that was from a blog I deleted. It contained information that I did not want indexed or cached or saved in any way. I see the meta tags to get Yahoo to not index the page in the first place, but what about a site that has already been *deleted*? I tried this: I re-opened the same URL and put different content on it. My thought was that when Yahoo's crawlers index the site again, it will remove the old cache and replace it with the new, eliminating the stuff I wanted off. Will that work? If so, how long will it take before it's totally gone?

[caspita]

Hi Pampie,

As per Y! it should take about a month... but I have been waiting more than that and cache is still there ... so .. bottom line is .. who knows? ;-)

[Pambie]

Thanks for answering so quickly!..I was afraid someone would say a month. But in your opinion, would the steps I took to get rid of old cache work? And then once it's gone from Yahoo, what about all the other metacrawler sites that pick up Yahoo content? Would they disappear from there, as well?

[caspita]

Yes, it should work.. what you don't know is how long is goint to take... as for the other meta crawlers getting content from Y! index, I don't know.. they may have their own cache and who knows if they want to remove it.