There are times when you wish to remove a page that google is displaying and returning when someone does a search.
Below is the basic information and links to google information on doing this.
Webpage Removal Tool
Google provides a tool for removal of web pages that are already showing up on searches.
You need to create a google account if you don’t already have one (it’s an excellent idea to have a google account as it gives you access to many services and is free).
Go to the webpage removal request tool
Select one of the 3 reasons for removal, fill in the details of the address for the page to remove and submit.
One problem that may occur is that after you remove the page it still shows on searches!
This is what google has to say about the reason:
After we delete the cached copy of a page, the page’s title and URL will continue to display for the same search queries until our robots revisit the site. Users will still be able to visit the live page. But because the relevant information has been removed from the live page, this page will not return as a result for searches on related keywords after our next crawl.
I haven’t been able to find out just how often a spider from google will visit your site, however from experience I can tell you that within days of putting pages up I have found them indexed and showing as a result in google.
More Google information on removing pages and sites
Robots.txt files
These files are used to tell google and other search engine spiders not to index a site or a page on a site.
How to create a robots.txt file
On this page you can find the actual code you need to put into a file, or you can use a tool google provides to create the file if you don’t feel you have the technical skill to create one yourself.
You don’t need to do anything to add a site or page to Google as the robot spiders do trawl the net all the time, however you can choose to do so.
One last helpful link from Google on good design for search engines.
