Google removal tool update

changed time removed

[Phil_S]

I removed a site over 90 days ago, and it never came back. I emailed them and got a response, telling me they could not add my site back at this time.

Now I just loged-on to the removal area and notice a new policy:

"Please keep in mind that submitting via the automatic URL removal system will cause a temporary, six months, removal of your site from the Google index."

6 month? it used to be 90 days. That was a neat.

It said 90 days when I removed it. and I'm 100% sure of that.

[SEOPTI]

Of your site or of your domain?

[taps]

I can still see the 90 days.

[Phil_S]

To me, it looks like they are updating the removal policy and pages.

One area still does say 90 days.

But if you log in to your account you will see they have updated the page.

I'm pretty sure this happened with-in the last few days.

It now says
"submitting via the automatic URL removal system will cause a temporary, six months, removal of your site from the Google index."

I have used this tool many time and never had a problem, nor noticed a 6 month removal policy.

So, be careful about using this tool. Unless you really want a 6 month removal.

[Wizard]

It's great they updated this information - now my hope is back ;))

I did a stupid thing back in november - after I'd noticed a duplicate content of www.mysite and mysite, I decided to remove www version and leave non-www version. Instead of using 301 as I should have done, I put noindex meta tag in www version, and used urlconsole. The result - both versions of url removed from the index.

After 90 days, I emailed Google, and received only automated responces. Now I know that perhaps the site will be back in may - it's better than never ;))

Anyway, I can attest that this long removal is only for an URL, not for all domain - I have lost main domain URL, but I have all other pages indexed without problems.

However, I'm not sure if PageRank is going to them from main page, while the main page is out of the index. The missing page is crawled daily and in some tools shows PR even if not indexed.

[JackieB]

I tried to remove 1 page and images and accidentally removed the whole domain. Now I have to wait 6 months!

I am gonna die!

If I transfer the site to another host, or the content to another domain name will it make a difference?

Jackie

[EarWig]

I wonder if this change of policy is in any way related to this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]
msg #:12

EW

[sailorjwd]

On Feb 5th I did the same thing Wizard did and my homepage is nowhere to be found.

I subsequently renamed my homepage from index.htm to index.html hoping it would get indexed anew - no luck.

One oddity is that I have no pagerank/backlinks/cache for www.mysite.com/ but I have pagerank/backlinks/No cache for www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/index.html

Seems like my homepage is 1/2 gone but still no traffic to it.

[Wizard]

One oddity is that I have no pagerank/backlinks/cache for www.mysite.com/ but I have pagerank/backlinks/No cache for www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/index.html

I noticed very similiar thing: no PR in toolbar while visiting the page (URL = "mysite.#*$!/"), no cache nor backlinks. But if I check PR with R***ck tool or other online PR checker for mysite.#*$! without slash ("mysite.xxx"), the PR shows up. If I check with slash ("mysite.xxx/"), there's no PR.

Most backlinks I have for this page are href="http://mysite.xxx/" however they used to be href="http://mysite.xxx" for years, before I added slashes to them almost 6 months ago. Maybe toolbar PR hasn't adopted to the change.

But this oddity appears to be related to page being removed - if I check my pages that are in index, R***ck tool shows PR no matter if I add slash or not!

I've got 2 pages removed with urlconsole, and these are the only pages that show PR if checked without slash but don't show one if checked with slash.

I'm not sure if the reason for this comes from Google or from PR checking tools, but it seems to prove that you have the same problem I have. If my site reappears in the index in May, so will be with yours after 6 months from removal.

And one more thing: Googlebot keeps crawling my removed page daily and follows all new links I place on the page, and indexes them without problems.

[crobb305]

I wonder if this change of policy is in any way related to this thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]
msg #:12
EW

The discussions are two separate issues. Removing an unwanted 302 which redirects to YOUR page (removed using your own metatags) is perfectly acceptable. Any time restrictions Google places on how long a url will stay out of the index is irrespective of individual efforts to remove unwanted redirects to their pages.

Clearly, if I don't want urlA to link to my page, urlB, I will use the removal tool since my page is the destination page containing the metarobots tags required to remove the offending urlA. This action has no bearing on anyone removing their OWN pages/intended urls. If Google chooses to say "hey, urls removed using the removal tool will stay gone for 6 months," then so be it. More power to them. Let's keep those 302s out.

[Reid]

This is an answer to the quesstion.

"I removed a 302 from site:mysite and was sucessfull but it still appears there."

it may take 6 months for google to crawl that page again even to find it gone.

[geekay]

My intention today was to remove a single page from the Google index. I saw the same notice as quoted in the first message:
"Please keep in mind that submitting via the automatic URL removal system will cause a temporary, six months, removal of your site from the Google index."

It really says site! One must be able to trust that the professionals at Google knows what a site is. They can't be playing games with webmasters. As I better take Google's conditions literally, I didn't dare to proceed with the removal of a page.

[Wizard]

It really says site!

Indeed, but I have removed a couple of outdated links lately, and nothing worse happened to the rest of my site.