Keeping a URL out of the SERPS

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post here.

I am trying to keep a URL completely out of the SERPS. It has a robots.txt exclusion but it still shows up for domain and exact word queries. Is there any way to keep the URL completely out of the SERPs?

It does have a few links pointing at it, which is why I suspect it is showing up.

Thanks,

 

I believe this meta tags should help.

 

Was the page indexed prior to blocking it in robots.txt ?

 

Add to each page that you want to remove the following:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW,NOARCHIVE">

Then add the page(s) links to the home page of your site and resubmit the domain for indexing. This will set the pages to be reindexed themselves and the next time they come up for indexing, they will be removed.

 

I think theres an option in the Google Webmaster site to disable crawling or summat like that?

otherwise do it in Robots.txt

 

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,NOFOLLOW">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 Days">

this will help you enough, but take some times anyway to disappear

 

Maybe a mistake in your robot.txt...

 

If you add what i said, you can remove robots.txt

 

Is it already in Google's index? May take a while for them to remove it completely.

 

Yes, the site had a few pages indexed which are now gone, also there is no cached copy of the home page so I think the robots.txt is keeping the site out of the serps, but the URL is still shows up if the names in the urls are typed in. I will try adding the meta robots tag as suggested and see about webmaster tools.

thanks for all the help!

 

hi

i have suggest the

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW,NOARCHIVE">