27 November 2006

Remove Your Contents from Google

Anytime you needed to remove your pages or entire website from Google Listing ?

Let me show a path to you.
For detail description about the topic, visit google's help pages listed at the end of the post.

Let's start then:
1) Remove entire website:
- Use robots.txt (
A Standard for Robot Exclusion)
- To remove entire website from google only & prevent just Googlebot to crawling your site,
Add following to the robots.txt & place it at the server root.
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

- Each Port & each protocol must have its own robots.txt file

* For Urgent removal of your website from google use Automatic URL removal system
http://services.google.com/urlconsole/controller
(http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller)


2) Removal of parts of your website

(i) Again use of robots.txt
- To remove all the pages under a particular directory (say, compile), add to robots.txt
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /compile

- To remove all the files some specific extension (say, gif), add to robots.txt
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*.gif$

(here, * is a wildcard for any pattern & $ denotes end of the string/filename)

(ii) Use of Meta Tags
- To prevent googlebot to index a page of your website, include following tag in the page

<meta name="GOOGLEBOT" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">


Try Getting More help from Google itself :
http://www.google.com/remove.html
or
click here

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