look into robots.txt for limiting indexing, after time your pages will be removed. You can also contact google and have an entire site or pages of a site removed. Either of these take quite a while to be seen in results. Good luck
To prevent the Google (and similar) Cached link from showing up under the page snippet, but still allow your site to be crawled and indexed by bots... In the HEAD section of each page add <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
That's not entirely true SEbasic, you specify what specific files/directories you want deindexed in your robots.txt file which you then upload to the google remove utility. I just used the tool very recently and it worked like a charm, G had deindexed the pages in less then 24 hrs.
nw... just upload your robots.txt to your home directory on your server as you normally would, then it's just a matter of specifying the URL of the file within the G remove tool.
Cool - I've got some pages that haven't been on a site for *months* and they are still showing... Stupid SE's
cn i use the robot.txt if im not the creator of the website?? i mean the webmaster has taken off my data from his site but google still show the cached page. the webpage removal requests that the url returns a 404 but in this case the page is no disabled....only my data was taken off not sure wat i can do next?pls help
Hi westhaven simply put this in your meta tags <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW,NOCACHE,"> Give it about a month depending on your site size for the crawl and pages to reflect update no cache also if you like no archive as well use <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW,NOCACHE,NOARCHIVE"> Peace
if you want to do that to exemple http://www.msn.com/ how do you do it? how do you put that meta name and etc. plz show a example?
Thanks a lot for sharing this information. I don't have an idea that you can even remove urls from search.