Get your site removed from Google - quick!
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Most of the time we’re struggling to get our sites INTO Google but sometimes you need to get them OUT of Google quickly. It’s easily done but a fiddle to find.
In my case, I wanted to get my old Blogspot version of Leaving The Day Job removed from Google. I’d moved the blog a few months back but there’s no way of doing a 301 redirect from Blogspot and Google was still listing my old posts at an address which just 404ed. I also suspect that this is keeping down the PageRank for this new site as Google will see it as duplicate content.
If you have your site set up and authenticated within Google’s Webmaster Tools you can simply remove URLs using the Tools/ Remove URLs option. Otherwise you need to use their Webpage Removal Request Tool. In my case I simply wanted to remove an out of date link but there are also various options for requesting removal of a third party’s web page including obscene material, lists of credit card numbers etc.
I simply input the link, gave it a couple of days and hey presto Google’s out of date links to my old blog were gone. Of course, outdated or non-existent pages will eventually disappear from the results anyway as Google gradually recrawls the web but this is a quick and easy way to give the big G a nudge.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
This is the way I’ve also done it before. Bit of a pain when I need to remove pages, but if it needs to be done then I recommend the same procedure you tried.