Hello, hoping someone can help me understand whats going on. First, I had requested removal before without a problem. However recently I received a denial saying that it is still a live page. When you click on the url it shows on my site Not Found. So I wasnt sure what they were talking about. However I noticed a difference between this one and another one I requested. The one that was removed just fine was www.mydomain.com/tag/word The one that is denied looks like this www.mydomain.com/?tag=word Not sure if thats why its denied or why it looks like that. Anyone know what I can do to get it removed. Any insight would be appreciated! Thanks for your help!
If you mean denied from being removed in Google index, you can just block Google spiders using Robot.txt and eventually your page will be removed from the index. That's my opinion Zac
How would I do that? the page is deleted, gone unable too locate through my sites panel. However, is it something that I can access through my web host panel? if so where?
add; <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX, FOLLOW"> to the page. Update your sitemap to show that the page has been updated. Resubmit your sitemap. Put in a request to remove the page from it's index, 3-5 days later it will be removed.
If the page you want to remove is not disallowed in the robots.txt file, returns a 404, or has a noindex meta tag on the page, then Google will deny the removal request. Use one of the options I noted and then try to request removal after that.
Thanks so much for all your quick replies! I really appreciate it. I am so sorry to sound like an idiot here , but I am still pretty new at this. From what I got from your replies- I add the code above at the end of the page url and enter that in the robot.txt file? Thanks again!
Try to prevent the site's crawling through .htaccess file ...It will help to prevent google bot from cawling the iste and finally it will not come in google index.
Just simply add it into your page HTML towards the top where you put in your meta description. No need to edit the robot.txt file itself.
The page is no longer there. This is what I did, I found an article that explained how to block a page on robot.txt Disallow: www.mydomain.com/?tag=word/private_file.html Does that seem correct to everyone? that won't block the entire site, right?
Google does not remove page from its search index manually. A page removal request can be vulnerable to abuse. Yes, robotx.txt is your best tool.