hey everyone, So, I recently created a sitemap for my site at www.euriskoarticles.com which is a article directory as you can see. If you do a google search with 'site:euriskoarticles.com' you will see that google has indexed roughly 1400 pages of my site already, problem is I believe google is indexing a lot of things that aren't needed, like the writers bio and my login page, or privacy page, my about us page. How can I make google index my page page which is euriskoarticles.com/index.php along with more of the articles that are hosted on my site? Is there a specific option within creating a sitemap to accomplish this?
You can make Google de-index any page by adding the following tag to the header of that page: <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX"> The next time Goggle crawls that page, it will remove it from its index. Furthermore, it will not just make Google and other search engines de-index it -- it will also make sure that it is not indexed in future. Regarding your other question re: how to get every page indexed, make sure every page is linked to (no orphan pages), make sure there is a sitemap that points to every page, get some good inbound links, and be patient Good luck.