ifubad Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 When I was testing a revamped site, a lot of the URLs were product.php?title=xxxx which Google already indexed. Now, the variable (title=xxxx) have changed to (somethingelse=xxxx), if I try to Remove URLs (all links with title=xxxx) within Google, it is denied because they are still working links, where the page's php script will display it's own generic message and NOT as "Page not found". How to remove the URLs from Google's index? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35301 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifubad Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 Ahhh, throw a 404 in the header. thnx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Sometimes google is good for solving google related problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifubad Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 The problem was that google indexed a bunch of links that has properties and values in the url, that points to a php file, which the site has changed those values to something else, but the php filename has not change, google will not know that they should be removed from their index. I got it taken cared of by throwing in a header 404 if the properties are not correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 The problem was that google indexed a bunch of links that has properties and values in the url, that points to a php file, which the site has changed those values to something else, but the php filename has not change, google will not know that they should be removed from their index. I got it taken cared of by throwing in a header 404 if the properties are not correct. I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropfaith Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 but in the end google was still the answer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 but in the end google was still the answer It always is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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