Request Removal From Search Engines
Sometimes, you just want to hide from the world. But hiding is not always so easy for a web page! Here’s how to request removal from search engines.
In Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day, we explained the basics of using a robots.txt file to control which pages on your website are indexed in the major search engines. Here are page removal instructions directly from the search engines themselves:
The quickest and best way to get a page removed from Google is to sign up for Webmaster tools and use the URL Removal tool.
- Read the Google FAQ about the URL Removal Tool
- Read the Google FAQ about removals in general
- Go to Google’s automatic URL removal page. (You may need to hit refresh after the page loads.)
Yahoo!
- Yahoo!’s instructions regarding URL removal.
Ask
- Ask does not currently include a feature allowing webmasters to request page removal. However, you can ask them not to crawl your site using the robots.txt file or a robots meta tag.
- Read Ask’s Webmaster FAQ
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Hi, I am trying to remove these 3 web pages (links) for search engines . All three fake reviews were posted by one same person (male) and I know this person. I need your help in order to remove all this crap. Please help. Thank you.
Here are these 3 links :
http://www.ripoffreport.com/lanceray-couture/consumer-services/glen-burnie-maryland-71165.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/lanceray-couture-iri/liars/glen-burnie-maryland-maryland-64303.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/irina-m-lanceray/consumer-services/glen-burnie-maryland-7f607.htm
Irina, the only way to get false information off that horrid site is to get a court order and even then sometimes a judge sides with them.
Google will D-list the page, making it harder to find, but you need a court order.
I have a report there, too, and mine is 100% fabrication.
There is a web site where you can post your side of things, but if it makes it to the front page of searches, you have to pay them $500. I forget the name of the site, but they are devoted to bringing down the Ripoff Report, so it might be worth seeing if you can help them in some way and see what they can do for you. Just look for terms like “bring down ripoff report” and “lawsuits against Ripoff report” and it should come up.
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