Problem with removing urls from google

[rashe18]

Hello.

I deleted some urls from my blog (wordpress).

I have 404.php file in my theme.

Despite of that , the urls of the deleted posts are not showing 404 , therefore google will deny removing these urls from its index.

I tried to solve the 404 problem inside my blog without success.

Do you think it is right to block these specific url with the robots.txt and then adding those blocked urls to the removal list of google's webmasters tools?

Thanks

[tedster]

The urls must return a true 404 http status code in the server header, and not just display a page called 404.php. You can check your http server header with one of many online tools or use the Firefox LiveHTTPheaders extension.

[rashe18]

Hello tedster ,

I installed this addon , here is the relevant result:

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HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:07:42 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.7 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=88
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

[tedster]

Well, that is what you want to see. So there's apparently an error on Google's side.

[rashe18]

What do you mean by saying "error on Google's side"?

Thanks ...

[g1smd]

They haven't picked up the new ststus yet, or have failed to fully act on it.

I do see some URLs that are 404, get moved to the Supplemental Results for a few months before finally being deleted.

[rashe18]

Is there something to do in order to solve this problem?