I know this question has been beaten to death, and hope somebody is patient enough to even bother reading this.
Earthlink is my ISP and they gave me a free homepage. I used it briefly and stopped using it. I did not use it for months but it still showed in google. I would have liked to delete the page entirely but Earthlink apparently can't as I called them twice about it. It's my free homepage and as far as they're concerned as long as I'm an Earthlink member that free webpage has to be online. I've switched the content in the webpage a couple times in an effort to removed the cached version. I cannot get rid of it. That's the problem. I don't care about what's on now but I had contact info on it before like six months ago and now it's cached on google. So if anybody can help me remove the cached page it would be great. I've tried the usual stuff I think. Right now, the free homepage is one line from an HTML page I uploaded. I read uploading a new page, with the appropriate NOARCHIVE metatag, would update googles index. But weeks later when I go to google and click on the webpage, the cached version from many months ago is still there. I don't care if the new page isn't indexed or is indexed, I don't use it and never will but I have the control over it. I just want the old cached version from many months ago with my contact info off google already. I have tried several meta tags from Google's removal webpage. I read that page many times, and have browsed many sites. I tried using Google's automated tool but they won't delete the cached page because it's a valid URL. So I called Earthlink to take it off and they told me the only way to get rid of the free homepage itself would be cancel the account. I want the earthlink email but I'm at my wits end and if I must I must leave Earthlink's service. I was hoping there was an easier way and decided to post the source to my free homepage. I think it's all right and it's been up for two weeks now without success. I've had similar ones up and waited a full month thinking the Google updates may require a full month. Here's the source verbatim:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 (Win32)">
<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20050107;18033671">
<META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20050205;6355173">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
<P>This page is no longer valid.
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
It's not cached by yahoo or other search engines as far as I can tell. Any advice would be appreciated.
