*The guest tip is by Umair Asif*
There are times when we would like Google and other search engines to completely remove a URL from search engine results. These would be incidents like accidentally leaving personal information on the web page or website being bombarded with spammers, etc. In these critical moments, [...]
Archive for the Tag ‘google webmaster tools’
January 18, 2010
6 (Effective and Not) Ways to Remove the Page from Search Engine Results
December 21, 2009
What’s The Fastest Way to Remove a Page from Google SERPs?
It may be not a frequent situation but it may happen so that you need to remove a page from Google SERPs really fast. What’s the best way to do that?
Try this:
Exclude the page in Robots.txt + remove the pages using the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools.
Return 410 status code for the page (to [...]
September 15, 2009
Removing 404 Pages From Your Google Webmaster Tools Account
This question is being asked so often that I just decided to go ahead and write a post about that:
You notice Google report a 404 page on your site;
You go to your site and fix the error (delete the link to the non-existent page or just fix the broken URL);
Your Google Webmaster Tools account is [...]
