How to remove specific webpages from Google Search Results?

Discussion in 'Google' started by ramki, Dec 23, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    We are using Google webmaster tool. In this tool, there is an option to remove Google cached webpages. But Google is saying that , below robot meta tag has to be included to remove the URL from search results.

    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

    Normally, these meta tags are called inside the <head> tag. The problem is we are calling the <Head> Tag Globally. Now, we have to remove some specific webpages from Google search results. If I use the "NOArchive" robot tag, all our webpages are excluded.

    Is it possible to include another Head tag, whether Google will recognize that?

    Is it possible to handle this issue using robots.txt?

    Please Help!, Thanks in advance
     
    ramki, Dec 23, 2008 IP
  2. rena

    rena Peon

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    Yh sure better use robot.txt. U can do it easily by Google webmaster tool
     
    rena, Dec 23, 2008 IP
  3. Nancy Kneoteric

    Nancy Kneoteric Banned

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    #3
    If you are calling the 'head tag' globally then the only other viable option would be to use robots.txt to disallow user agents (search engine bots) from crawling the specific web pages. However this is not foolproof.

    Spiders could still crawl those pages by following links to that particular page. So you will also have to no follow all the links that are pointing to those pages.
     
    Nancy Kneoteric, Dec 23, 2008 IP
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    it seems it is difficult to remove
     
    zk200083, Dec 24, 2008 IP
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    I think you can just put specific URL in the google webmaster tool to request a remove from them.
     
    zbreeze, Dec 24, 2008 IP
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    Yes use Robots.txt
    it's very powerfull

    go to dailyblogtips dot com and you'll find examples of robots.txt
     
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    use robots.txt or you can also use 301 redirect to redirect those page and over the time google will un-index those pages..
     
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    Or if you use "webmaster tool", you have an option to tell Google to un-index/remove pages that are already indexed.
     
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    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    No Archive & No Index & No Follow meta tags, beside L301 redirections using your .htaccess file and robots.txt
    However, you can also request a URL Removal via Google Webmasters tools as well ;)
     
    IEmailer.com, Dec 24, 2008 IP
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    Do these pages you want removed return a 404 error ? Then the tool in webmasters tools to remove 404s should work for you in lieu of a metatag or robots.txt
     
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