Hi, So I need to remove a website from the web. I have deleted all files on the server, but if you punch in the URL in google search the sites pages still come up as indexed. This is becasue they are in the google cache. How can I get rid of these pages all In one go? I have made a new index.html page with this code. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"> <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> </head> <body> </body> </html> Will this code tell google to drop my site out of all of it's listings including cached pages? From what I understand I have to now go in to webmasters tools and select to remove the URL/URL's. I get confused here as what to do exactly. DO I have to remove them all one by one? As in type in a new cached URL and request to be removed one by one? This will take ages. Here are the 4 option I can choose. Individual URLs: web pages, images, or other files Remove outdated or blocked web pages, images, and other documents from appearing in Google search results. A directory and all subdirectories on your site Remove all files and subdirectories in a specific directory on your site from appearing in Google search results. Your entire site Remove your site from appearing in Google search results. Cached copy of a Google search result Remove the cached copy and description of a page that is either outdated or to which you've added a noarchive meta tag. What about remove entire site?? I do have another website that is in a sub folder of this main site. I'm worried that because I read the remove directory and sub dir removal that If I select "your entire site" it will also remove my other domains and websites that are with hostgator. Did you understand that?\ So what should I do? Peter
I dunno exactly how to stop Google from indexing your site that is not working.. I guess you just have to wait until Google wont show it.
Mention the folder in which the site is in the robots.txt file, it should work & also not block the other site which is in sub folder from cached.
I think under Google Webmaster Tools there is a Crawel Access menu which has a remove url section. If you submit a request there your listing would get deindexed faster.