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Archive for the Tag ‘google webmaster tools’

January 18, 2010

6 (Effective and Not) Ways to Remove the Page from Search Engine Results

*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, [...]

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 [...]

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