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Riboflavin
Apr 3rd 2006, 2:19 pm
A page of mine got indexed that I did not want to be, so I just added it to my robots.txt

Does anyone know how long it will take before it is removed from google, or will it stay and just not be re-indexed?
Jean-Luc
Apr 3rd 2006, 2:58 pm
robots.txt asks the robots not to visit the page. It would be better that access to the page is permitted to robots and that the page HEAD section includes:<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
The time before the page is out of the index is hard to predict. I had to wait more than a month when I made a test in November of last year.

If it is important that the page is rapidly removed from Google index, use the Google automatic removal system (http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller). Be very careful with this dangerous tool. Do not use it if it is not an urgent matter (some people complain that Google removed more pages than what they wanted).

Jean-Luc
Riboflavin
Apr 3rd 2006, 3:05 pm
Ok thanks :)
exam
Apr 3rd 2006, 3:12 pm
Second time I posted this (http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html) today, but maybe it'll help. :cool:
daithanh
Apr 5th 2006, 4:24 pm
still cant find my answer
exam
Apr 5th 2006, 8:44 pm
still cant find my answer
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