Is there anyway to get rid of pages

bcyber · 03-09-2006, 04:32 PM

google has listed that I deleted like a year ago?

ChrisBrady · 03-09-2006, 04:56 PM

If it is cached it is part of history.

Ferre · 03-09-2006, 05:28 PM

You can get those out of their cache, I can't find a link that quick but there is a way to get urls that are deleted from your server out of their cache, I think they have a form for that somewhere.

bcyber · 03-09-2006, 06:09 PM

I installed some stupid mediaplaza private label site and it added like 5,000 pages to googles index. I got rid of it a long time ago and the links still show up. So, I don't know what to do.

Ferre · 03-09-2006, 06:31 PM

Make a fancy 404 page if those cached pages bring you traffic.

mreigle · 03-10-2006, 12:37 AM

Typed "remove site google" into Google and got this:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

John Scott · 03-10-2006, 07:36 AM

I used that a couple months ago - it was like instant. Loved it.

webzenstar · 03-12-2006, 01:54 PM

This brings up another interesting matter!

Does anyone know for sure how long Google keeps content cached in their DBs?

GeorgeB · 03-12-2006, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by webzenstar

This brings up another interesting matter!

Does anyone know for sure how long Google keeps content cached in their DBs?

Till the end of time. (or till they lose to the government in court).

John Scott · 03-13-2006, 09:59 AM

I regularly see pages that were cached over a year ago.

bcyber · 03-13-2006, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mreigle

Typed "remove site google" into Google and got this:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

Well I'm trying to do that for a whole folder. I hope it doesn't do any damage, not that google sends me much traffic anyways.

bcyber · 03-16-2006, 01:03 PM

I added this to my robots file

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /cellphone-wallpaper

and they still haven't removed those 5,000 something pages listed when I do site:www.*******.com

MadKad · 03-16-2006, 02:39 PM

do what ferre said and make them it to fancy 404 pages with links to your websites its traffic

bcyber · 03-20-2006, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadKad

do what ferre said and make them it to fancy 404 pages with links to your websites its traffic

No traffic comes from these pages and this didn't work either...

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /cellphone-wallpaper

MadKad · 03-20-2006, 03:11 PM

I get traffic from mine but then again I have over 400 pages that are missing cos of a big update

noob_0001 · 03-20-2006, 09:04 PM

Why don't you just redirect all the pages to your root or a custom 404 page with the robots meta tag for google.

Use a RedirectMatch command

RedirectMatch permanent ^/directory/.*$ http://www.domain.com/

If you had not removed the pages you could have used the robots metatag.