Re: Removing URLs from SE index

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:37:53 +0200, <mercurythread@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Set the header response of the document to be 301 and this will
overrule the 200 OK reponse that your server will send out by default -
a 301 in the htaccess should do this. Is reasonably simple in php dont
know about other languages,


I wasn't precise enough.

Imagine you have a page example.com/remove_me.html (call it A) that is
now redirected to example.com/dont_remove_me.html (call it B). You want
to get rid of page A in Google cache, but this url still generates traffic
so you redirect it to B with 301.

When you enter (in the remove tool) url for A Google checks its existence.
It is redirected to page B with 301. Then Google fetches page B that it was
redirected to. This page B exists - so now Google see 200 - and it refuses
to remove page A, as it assumes it still exists. The only sure cases when
Google doesn't refuse to remove A is when it is either blocked by robots.txt
(then it doesn't matter if the page exists) or when GET A returns 404
(probably other codes - like "gone" - too).

Perhaps it is corrected now, but I was fighting it this Summer. I have no
spare page to delete from cache to check it now :)

On the second thought... I am not sure if I was sending 301 or 302.

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Borek
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