I was wondering why I cannot get the URL removal tool on G to work. I am running a db program that defaults to an error page if a file is not found. I did a header check on this page and was suprised that is returned a 200 Object Found. What this means is that everytime I changed a file name on my sites, Googlebot would crawl and assume that the page was ok even though the file was not found. The result for one of my sites, that was completely redone, is many old URLs pointing to this error page, all being crwled and indexed. I am worried about dupe content here and justy want to delete the URLs.
I submitted about 15 of the URLs using the removal tool yesterday and am dumbfounded that the requests have been denied. I got a "request denied" on every single page. I changed my server settings to return a 404 Object Not found. I checked the page via the header checker. I also added <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> to the page.
Anyone know any reason why these requests are being denied?
Thanks!
