{"id":24370,"date":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/url-removal-explained-part-iv-tracking-your-requests-and-what-not-to-remove\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"url-removal-explained-part-iv-tracking-your-requests-and-what-not-to-remove","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/url-removal-explained-part-iv-tracking-your-requests-and-what-not-to-remove\/","title":{"rendered":"URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests and what not to remove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Monday, May 03, 2010<\/p>\n<p>\n  In this final installation in our URL removal series, let&#8217;s talk about following up on your<br \/>\n  removal requests, as well as when <em>not<\/em> to use Google&#8217;s URL removal tool. If you haven&#8217;t<br \/>\n  already, I recommend reading the previous posts in this series:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/url-removal-explained-part-i-urls-and-directories\/\">Part I: Removing URLs and directories<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/url-removals-explained-part-ii-removing-sensitive-text-from-a-page\/\">Part II: Removing and updating cached content<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/url-removal-explained-part-iii-removing-content-that-you-dont-own\/\">Part III: Removing content you don&#8217;t own<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/url-removal-explained-part-iv-tracking-your-requests-and-what-not-to-remove\/\">Part IV: Tracking requests, what not to remove<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  You might be also interested to read about<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/managing-your-reputation-through-search-results\/\">managing what information is available about you online<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"understanding-the-status-of-your-requests\" tabindex=\"-1\">Understanding the status of your requests<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Once you&#8217;ve submitted a removal request, it will appear in your list of requests. You can check<br \/>\n  the status of your requests at any time to see whether the content has been removed, or whether<br \/>\n  the request is still or pending or was denied.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"removal requests and their status\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-69e4e6a756c9.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  If a request was denied, you should see a &#8220;Learn more&#8221; link next to it explaining why that<br \/>\n  particular request was denied. Since different types of removals have different requirements, the<br \/>\n  reason why a particular request was denied can vary. The &#8220;Learn more&#8221; link should help you figure<br \/>\n  out what you need to change in order to make your request successful. For example, you may need to<br \/>\n  change the URL in question so that it meets the requirements for the type of removal you<br \/>\n  requested; or, if you can&#8217;t do that, you may need to request a different type of removal (one<br \/>\n  whose requirements your URL currently meets).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If a request has been marked &#8220;Removed&#8221; but you still see that content in search results, check<br \/>\n  the following:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>\n      <b>Is the URL that&#8217;s appearing in search results the exact same URL<\/b> that you submitted for<br \/>\n      removal? It&#8217;s fairly common for the same, or similar, content to appear on multiple URLs on a<br \/>\n      site. You may have successfully removed one URL, but still see others containing that same<br \/>\n      content.\n    <\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> Request removal of the other URL(s) in question. See our help center article<br \/>\n      about<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=63758\" class=\"external-link\">which URL should you use for removal\/block requests<\/a><br \/>\n      for help.\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      Keep in mind that <b>URLs are case sensitive<\/b>, so requesting removal of<br \/>\n      <code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/embarrassingstuff.html<\/code> is not the same as requesting<br \/>\n      removal of <code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/EmbarrassingStuff.html<\/code>\n    <\/p>\n<p><b>Solution:<\/b> Request removal of the other URL(s) in question. See our help center article<br \/>\n      about<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=63758\" class=\"external-link\">which URL should you use for removal\/block requests<\/a><br \/>\n      for help.\n    <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\n      When a request is marked &#8220;Removed,&#8221; that can<br \/>\n      <b>mean different things depending on what type of request<\/b> you submitted. If you requested<br \/>\n      removal of an entire URL, then &#8220;Removed&#8221; should mean that that entire URL no longer appears in<br \/>\n      our search results. If you requested removal of the cached copy of a URL, &#8220;Removed&#8221; means that<br \/>\n      the cached copy has been removed and will no longer appear in search results; but the URL<br \/>\n      itself may still appear.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <b>Solution:<\/b> Double-check what type of removal you requested by looking at the &#8220;Removal<br \/>\n      Type&#8221; column. If you requested a cache removal but you want the entire URL gone, make sure<br \/>\n      the URL meets the<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/url-removal-explained-part-i-urls-and-directories\/\">requirements for complete removal<\/a><br \/>\n      and then file a new request for complete removal of the URL.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"when-not-to-use-the-url-removal-tool\" tabindex=\"-1\">When not to use the URL removal tool<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <b>To clean up cruft<\/b>, like old pages that <code>404<\/code>. The tool is intended for URLs<br \/>\n    that urgently need to be removed, such as confidential data that was accidentally exposed. If<br \/>\n    you recently made changes to your site and just have some outdated URLs in the index, Google&#8217;s<br \/>\n    crawlers will see this as we recrawl your URLs, and those pages will naturally drop out of our<br \/>\n    search results over time. There&#8217;s no need to request an urgent removal through this tool.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>To remove<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9679690\" class=\"external-link\">crawl errors<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n    from your Webmaster Tools account. The removal tool removes URLs from Google&#8217;s search results,<br \/>\n    not from your Webmaster Tools account. There&#8217;s currently no way for you to manually remove URLs<br \/>\n    from this report; they will drop out naturally over time as we stop crawling URLs that<br \/>\n    repeatedly <code>404<\/code>.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>To &#8220;start from scratch&#8221;<\/b> with your site. If you&#8217;re worried that your site may have a<br \/>\n    penalty, or you want to &#8220;start from scratch&#8221; after purchasing a domain from someone else, we<br \/>\n    don&#8217;t recommend trying to use the URL removal tool to remove your entire site and then &#8220;start<br \/>\n    over.&#8221; Search engines gather a lot of information from other sites (such as who links to you, or<br \/>\n    what words they use to describe your site) and use this to help understand your site. Even if we<br \/>\n    could remove everything we currently know about your site, a lot of it would come back exactly<br \/>\n    the same once we&#8217;d recrawled all the other sites that help us understand your site and put it in<br \/>\n    context. If you&#8217;re worried that your domain has some bad history, we recommend filing a<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=35843\" class=\"external-link\">reconsideration request<\/a><br \/>\n    letting us know what you&#8217;re worried about and what has changed (such as that you&#8217;ve acquired the<br \/>\n    domain from someone else, or that you&#8217;ve changed certain aspects of your site).\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>To take your site &#8220;offline&#8221; after hacking.<\/b> If your site was hacked and you want to get<br \/>\n    rid of bad URLs that got indexed, you can use the URL removal tool to remove any new URLs that<br \/>\n    the hacker created, for example,<br \/>\n    <code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/buy-cheap-cialis-skq3w598.html<\/code>.<br \/>\n    But we don&#8217;t recommend removing your entire site, or removing URLs that you&#8217;ll eventually want<br \/>\n    indexed; instead, simply clean up the hacking and let us recrawl your site so that we can<br \/>\n    reindex the new, cleaned-up content as soon as possible.<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/my-sites-been-hacked-now-what\/\">This article<\/a> contains more<br \/>\n    details on how to deal with hacking.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <b>To get the right &#8220;version&#8221; of your site indexed.<\/b> When a request to remove<br \/>\n    <code><b>https<\/b>:\/\/www.example.com\/tattoo.html<\/code> is accepted,<br \/>\n    <code><b>http<\/b>:\/\/www.example.com\/tattoo.html<\/code> is also removed. The same is true of the<br \/>\n    <b>www<\/b> and <b>non-www<\/b> versions of your URL or site. This is because the same content is<br \/>\n    often available at each of these URLs and we realize that most webmasters and searchers don&#8217;t<br \/>\n    want these duplicates appearing in search results. In short, the URL removal tool should not be<br \/>\n    used as a<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/specify-canonical\/\">canonicalization<\/a> tool.<br \/>\n    It won&#8217;t keep your favorite version, it&#8217;ll remove all versions (http\/https and www\/non-www) of<br \/>\n    a URL.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  We hope this series has answered your questions about removing content from Google&#8217;s search<br \/>\n  results, and helped you troubleshoot any issues that may arise. Join us in our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/community\/label?lid=5489e59697a233d7\" class=\"external-link\">Help Forum<\/a><br \/>\n  if you still have questions.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Posted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analyst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, May 03, 2010 In this final installation in our URL removal series, let&#8217;s talk about following up on your removal requests, as well as when not to use Google&#8217;s URL removal tool. 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