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How To Remove Site Pages From Google
By Bill Hartzer
Expert Author Article Date: 2010-06-22 This is only one seo tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific, they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. This search engine optimization tip has to do with removing a page or a specific URL from the Google search engine. In this blog post, I am not going to give you a log of explanation about why you would want to remove a web page from Google. I realize that there are many reasons for wanting to remove a web page from the Google search engine (which might include the fact that it's a duplicate page or maybe even a page that has sensitive data on it that you don't want given out to the whole entire world). But, what I am going to do is give you several options for removing a web page from Google. After I name each option, I will give you some more details about it. Use Google's own removal tool. Once it's officially verified in Google Webmaster Tools, you'll need to do the following: 1. Click on "Site Configuration" then "Crawler Access" and then "Remove URL" as shown below:
2. Then, after you have clicked on "Remove URL", you'll need to submit a new removal request as shown below:
3. Click on the "New Removal Request" button. 4. You are now presented with a place to input a URL. Enter the URL and click on "Continue".
5. You are presented with a new page, with a few options. Verify the URL, and choose one of these options from the drop-down menu: - Remove page from search results and from cache Check the box "The page returns a 404/410, or has been blocked by robots.txt or a noindex meta tag" which essentially is a verification that you have done one of these things: - you have verified that the page returns a 404 error or a 410 error I personally recommend that you do ALL of these things in order to make "triple sure" that you want to remove the page from the index (and that you give the search engines several ways to be reminded that they should remove the web page from their index). Once you have verified those things, check the box and click on "Submit Request". How long it takes for Google to remove the web page from their index really depends on a few factors, but it should generally be removed in a few days. I'd give it up to a week to be completely removed. Here are other things that you can do: Completely Remove the page from your web site. Password Protect the Page Add the No Index Tag to the Page Add the Page to the Robots.txt file Remove all links to the Page As you can see, there are several options for removing a page from the Google search engine. In many cases, you may find that it's better that you do many of these things in order to get the page removed. Certainly, which ones you do will also depend on whether or not you to keep the page accessible or whether or not you just want the page to "go away". CommentsAbout the Author: Bill Hartzer currently is the President of BillHartzer.com, a Strategic Online Marketing Consultancy that includes services such as search engine optimization, social media marketing, and online reputation management. Bill Hartzer formerly managed the Search Engine Marketing division of Vizion Interactive and MarketNet, leading interactive marketing and website design firms in the Dallas, Texas area. |
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