Re: Removing URLs from SE index


"Borek" <borek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Best,
> Borek
> --
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> BATE - program for pH calculations
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>
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> i diagnozy ryzyka dysleksji

Borek, perhaps you were using a 302 redirect. I removed hundreds of pages
from the index this summer that had been gone from the server for more than
a year now (if only there were some way to remove the same pages from
Yahoo!'s index) but my server was sending 301 redirects for the missing
files from various domains.

--
Brent Atkerson
Anrod Screen Cylinder Co.
www.anrodscreen.com


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