Site on free hosting, how to remove from Google's index?

How to remove site from googles cache

[billyy11]

Hi....

I had a webpage(subdomain-- or is it just a folder?) on a free host that google cached, well i am trying to get it removed. So i removed the page and originally when you tried to access that page it just redirected to the hosts main page, which i was told by the hosts that that is their way of giving a 404. But now it doesn't redirect but gives a 500 error, not sure what happened there.

Now to get a page removed from googles cache you need to sumbit your page to the url removal section and your page has to return a 404, which it now doesn't. Well the removal is still in a pending status but i doubt it will be removed.

Should i create the subdomain again and add some 'no chaching' and 'no snippets' mega tags to stop google caching?

Basically how do i completely removed the cache link and snippet from googles cache, taking into account it doesn't seem to want to give a 404 now.

thanks for any help!

[vincevincevince]

I suggest adding a robots.txt file which disallows Google to an empty subdomain. That will be enough for you to get the content removed using Google's tools.

[billyy11]

Thanks!

Say my site is http://somenameichose.example.com

So that the actual page that google is caching is,

http://somenameichose.example.com/index.html (which i have now removed)

so.... do i recreated the subdomain with index html and just place the robots.txt in this directory that index.html is in ...and thats its?

So then the craler crawls that page and sees not to cache it, but.. does it then delete the page already in cache or, does it wait until that page already in cache expires then not re-cache?

I also need the snippet removed....

TIA

[edited by: encyclo at 5:14 pm (utc) on Sep. 12, 2007]
[edit reason] switched to example.com [/edit]

[vincevincevince]

Disallow Google with robots.txt, and then you can use Google's removal tools for rapid removal.

[billyy11]

Can i use this instead of robots.txt as i am not sure if robots.txt will work on the free host, or not sure the exact code to use,

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOSNIPPET">

If i use these meta tags in the index.html, will google delete the cached version and snippet as soon as it crawls it?

[vincevincevince]

Only of index.html

[billyy11]

Thanks for that.

Should i add ,

http://somenameichose.example.com

or,

http://somenameichose.example.com/index.html

to Google url submission, or does it not matter?

[edited by: encyclo at 5:14 pm (utc) on Sep. 12, 2007]
[edit reason] switched to example.com [/edit]

[g1smd]

Use the exact same URL that they list.