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My company is trying to remove an entire subdirectory's worth of pages from a section our site (at the request of an advertiser). My first idea was to simply use the robots.txt command to exclude this subdirectory. The problem with that course of action is twofold (in my opinion):
1)Googlebot does not always obey the robots.txt command
2)Even if the command works, google will still have those pages in its cache, so the pages may remained indexed and accesible in Google.
Can anyone think of an unobstrusive means of getting these pages out of the google index (don't tell me to remove the pages from our site...that is not an option at this point...don't ask me why ).
I was thinking of using a 301 but I'm not sure that is the right course of action.
Basically, the goal is to remove these pages from the google index so that our users cannot find them when they perform a domain search using our (powered by google) search tool.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Hugo
how about password protecting the directory?
Does your site run ASP, PHP, CF or any dynamically driven pages?
What is the server on? apache? IIS? Solaris?
More details will help.
Thanks,
Patrick Elward
Remove Content from Google's Index [google.com]
I can confirm that it works as described on the above page.
There is a 24 hour feature that you can use too. You can literally watch PR go from green to gray in 24-48 hours.
Note: If you believe your request is urgent and cannot wait until the next time Google crawls your site, use our automatic URL removal system. In order for this automated process to work, your webmaster must first create and place a robots.txt file on the site in question.
[services.google.com...]
