{"id":23879,"date":"2007-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/requesting-removal-of-content-from-our-index\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"requesting-removal-of-content-from-our-index","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/requesting-removal-of-content-from-our-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Requesting removal of content from our index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Tuesday, April 17, 2007<\/p>\n<aside class=\"key-point\">It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore). Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/removals-overview\/\">up-to-date documentation about removing web pages<\/a>.<\/aside>\n<p>\n  As a site owner, you control what content of your site is indexed in search engines. The easiest<br \/>\n  way to let search engines know what content you don&#8217;t want indexed is to use a<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/control-what-you-share-with-google\/\">robots.txt file or <span>robots<\/span> <code>meta<\/code> tag<\/a>.<br \/>\n  But sometimes, you want to remove content that&#8217;s already been indexed. What&#8217;s the best way to do<br \/>\n  that?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As always, the answer begins: it depends on the type of content that you want to remove. Our<br \/>\n  webmaster help center<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/removals-overview\/\">provides detailed information<\/a><br \/>\n  about each situation. Once we recrawl that page, we&#8217;ll remove the content from our index<br \/>\n  automatically. But if you&#8217;d like to expedite the removal rather than wait for the next crawl,<br \/>\n  the way to do that has just gotten easier.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For sites that you&#8217;ve verified ownership for in your<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/search.google.com\/search-console\" class=\"external-link\">Webmaster Tools<\/a><br \/>\n  account, you&#8217;ll now see a new option under the Diagnostic tab called URL Removals. To get started,<br \/>\n  simply click the <b>URL Removals<\/b> link, then <b>New Removal Request<\/b>. Choose the option that<br \/>\n  matches the type of removal you&#8217;d like.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"individual-urls\" tabindex=\"-1\">Individual URLs<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Choose the <b>Individual URLs<\/b> option if you&#8217;d like to remove a URL or image. In order for the<br \/>\n  URL to be eligible for removal, one of the following must be true:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    The URL must return a status code of either<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_HTTP_status_codes\" class=\"external-link\"><code>404<\/code> \u0438\u043b\u0438 <code>410<\/code><\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    The URL must be blocked by the site&#8217;s<br \/>\n     <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-txt-intro\/\">robots.txt file<\/a>.\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n    The URL must be blocked by a<br \/>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/block-search-indexing-with-noindex\/\"><span>robots<\/span> <code>meta<\/code> tag<\/a>.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How to remove individual URLs in Webmaster Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-95ba1e986e7b.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  Once the URL is ready for removal, enter the URL and indicate whether it appears in our web<br \/>\n  search results or image search results. Then click <b>Add<\/b>. You can add up to 100 URLs in a<br \/>\n  single request. Once you&#8217;ve added all the URLs you would like removed, click<br \/>\n  <b>Submit Removal Request<\/b>.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Filing a removals request for a specific URL in Webmaster Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-454fddfd8d7a.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a-directory\" tabindex=\"-1\">A directory<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attempt-right\" alt=\"Filing a removal request for a directory in Webmaster Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-f3f60db5cc1f.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  Choose this option if you&#8217;d like to remove all files and folders within a directory on your site.<br \/>\n  For instance, if you request removal of <code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/myfolder<\/code>,<br \/>\n  this will remove all URLs that begin with that path, such as:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/myfolder<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/myfolder\/page1.html<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/myfolder\/images\/image.jpg<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  In order for a directory to be eligible for removal, you must block it using a robots.txt file.<br \/>\n  For instance, for the example above, <code>https:\/\/www.example.com\/robots.txt<\/code> could include<br \/>\n  the following:\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2 id=\"your-entire-site\" tabindex=\"-1\">Your entire site<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Choose this option only if you want to remove your entire site from the Google index. This<br \/>\n  option will remove all subdirectories and files. Do not use this option to remove the non-preferred<br \/>\n  version of your site&#8217;s URLs from being indexed. For instance, if you want all of your URLs indexed<br \/>\n  using the www version, don&#8217;t use this tool to request removal of the non-www version. Instead,<br \/>\n  specify the version you want indexed using the <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/bye-bye-preferred-domain-setting\/\">Preferred domain tool<\/a><br \/>\n   (and do a<br \/>\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/URL_redirection\" class=\"external-link\"><code>301<\/code> redirect<\/a><br \/>\n   to the preferred version, if possible). To use this option, you must<br \/>\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-txt-intro\/\">block the site using a robots.txt file<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cached-copies\" tabindex=\"-1\">Cached copies<\/h2>\n<p>\n  Choose this option to remove cached copies of pages in our index. You have two options for making<br \/>\n  pages eligible for cache removal.\n<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"using-a-meta-noarchive-tag-and-requesting-expedited-removal\" tabindex=\"-1\">Using a meta <code>noarchive<\/code> tag and requesting expedited removal<\/h3>\n<p>\n  If you don&#8217;t want the page cached at all, you can add a<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-meta-tag\/\">meta <code>noarchive<\/code> tag<\/a><br \/>\n  to the page and then request expedited cache removal using this tool. By requesting removal<br \/>\n  using this tool, we&#8217;ll remove the cached copy right away, and by adding the meta<br \/>\n  <code>noarchive<\/code> tag, we will never include the cached version. (If you change your mind<br \/>\n  later, you can remove the meta <code>noarchive<\/code> tag.)\n<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"changing-the-page-content\" tabindex=\"-1\">Changing the page content<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Filing a removal request for cached content in Webmaster Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-71a840d1e01d.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attempt-right\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  If you want to remove the cached version of a page because it contained content that you&#8217;ve<br \/>\n  removed and don&#8217;t want indexed, you can request the cache removal here. We&#8217;ll check to see that<br \/>\n  the content on the live page is different from the cached version and if so, we&#8217;ll remove the<br \/>\n  cached version. We&#8217;ll automatically make the latest cached version of the page available again<br \/>\n  after six months (and at that point, we likely will have recrawled the page and the cached version<br \/>\n  will reflect the latest content) or, if you see that we&#8217;ve recrawled the page sooner than that,<br \/>\n  you can request that we reinclude the cached version sooner using this tool.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"checking-the-status-of-removal-requests\" tabindex=\"-1\">Checking the status of removal requests<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attempt-right\" alt=\"View the status of removal requests in Webmaster Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-a9215dd801f3.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  Removal requests show as pending until they have been processed, at which point, the status<br \/>\n  changes to either Denied or Removed. Generally, a request is denied if it doesn&#8217;t meet the<br \/>\n  eligibility criteria for removal.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"to-reinclude-content\" tabindex=\"-1\">To reinclude content<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attempt-right\" alt=\"Viewing succefful removal requests in Webmaster Tools\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-21220ec8cb8e.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  If a request is successful, it appears in the Removed Content tab and you can reinclude it any<br \/>\n  time simply by removing the robots.txt or <span>robots<\/span> <code>meta<\/code> tag block and clicking <b>Reinclude<\/b>.<br \/>\n  Otherwise, we&#8217;ll exclude the content for six months. After that six month period, if the content<br \/>\n  is still blocked or returns a <code>404<\/code> \u0438\u043b\u0438 <code>410<\/code> status message and we&#8217;ve<br \/>\n  recrawled the page, it won&#8217;t be reincluded in our index. However, if the page is available to our<br \/>\n  crawlers after this six month period, we&#8217;ll once again include it in our index.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"requesting-removal-of-content-you-dont-own\" tabindex=\"-1\">Requesting removal of content you don&#8217;t own<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attempt-right\" alt=\"Webpage removals request tool\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-b656b878e5bf.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  But what if you want to request removal of content that&#8217;s located on a site that you don&#8217;t own?<br \/>\n  It&#8217;s just gotten easier to do that as well. Our new<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/removals\" class=\"external-link\">Webpage removal request tool<\/a><br \/>\n  steps through the process for each type of removal request.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since Google indexes the web and doesn&#8217;t control the content on web pages, we generally can&#8217;t<br \/>\n  remove results from our index unless the webmaster has blocked or modified the content or removed<br \/>\n  the page. If you would like content removed, you can work with the site owner to do so, and then<br \/>\n  use this tool to expedite the removal from our search results.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you have found search results that contain specific types of personal information, you can<br \/>\n  request removal even if you&#8217;ve been unable to work with the site owner. For this type of removal,<br \/>\n  provide your email address so we can work with you directly.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Selecting the personal information option in the Webpage removals request tool\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-4de31a38c57a.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  If you have found search results that shouldn&#8217;t be returned with SafeSearch enabled, you can let<br \/>\n  us know using this tool as well.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Remove inappropriate content in the Webpage removals request tool\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-1b89f3709d4a.png\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  You can check on the status of pending requests, and as with the version available in Webmaster<br \/>\n  Tools, the status will change to Removed or Denied once it&#8217;s been processed. Generally, the<br \/>\n  request is denied if it doesn&#8217;t meet the eligibility criteria. For requests that involve personal<br \/>\n  information, you won&#8217;t see the status available here, but will instead receive an email with more<br \/>\n  information about next steps.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-about-the-existing-url-removal-tool\" tabindex=\"-1\">What about the existing URL removal tool?<\/h2>\n<p>\n  If you&#8217;ve made previous requests with this tool, you can still log in to check on the status of<br \/>\n  those requests. However, make any new requests with this new and improved version of the tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 17, 2007 It&#8217;s been a while since we published this blog post. Some of the information may be outdated (for example, some images may be missing, and some links may not work anymore). Read our up-to-date documentation about removing web pages. 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