Ok, hoping someone can help me out here. I have a website, let's say www.website.com, and it is listed in Yahoo. The problem is the following. The site is listed in Yahoo as follows: website.com/index.html That is the result that is shown when it shows up for my main keyword. The www. extension is missing and the index.html page that is shown above does not even exist on my site. I have had the site up for about 2 years. For the last 6 months or so I have had wordpress running on it and the index.html file was deleted 6+ months ago, yet somehow Yahoo is still showing it. The site is crawled often by Yahoo and the last crawl was 3 days ago so I have no idea why it insists on showing the index.html. Clicking on the above link redirects you to the main www.website.com. Any ideas/suggestions? I am worried this is affecting how my site ranks in Yahoo as the above page does not exist etc.
I know with Google webmaster tools you can remove pages that no longer exist on your site that appear in Google search results. Is there maybe something like this for Yahoo?
Thanks melbel. Signed up and I can't even find the index.html shown as an indexed url/page in the area you can delete links/urls from yahoo. Very weird. EDIT: Fixed. That did it melbel.
And I am back with another question I added both www.website.com and website.com I found the dead/incorrect link in the website.com site stats. However, oddly both of these sites are reporting different stats. I am wondering is it safe to delete website.com to remove it from being indexed but will this also make www.website.com to be completely removed?
Insert a 301 permanent redirect into your htaccess file. Point the search engine from the page you want to remove from the results page, to the new page. This should make the search engine delist the old page since it has "permanently moved." I used a 301 line in the htaccess file of one of my sites. In maybe 10 - 14 days the page was removed from the SERPs.