Help to remove an old directory from google search results

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by dotcompals, Dec 19, 2005.

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    I was using xoops for one of my sites. Now I ceased using xoops and deleted the whole xoops directory. Even after 3-4 months google is still showing those non-existent pages.
    What is the best way to remove those from google search results with out affecting my other pages?
    (I am using googe sitemap)
     
    dotcompals, Dec 19, 2005 IP
  2. xponse

    xponse Peon

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    use robots.txt

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /xoops/
     
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  3. dotcompals

    dotcompals Prominent Member

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    But, xoops directory doesnt exists now.deleted from the server several months ago.
     
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