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Removing URL's from Search Results with Google Webmasters

by sodomojo
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If I have a whole site that I want removed from the search results (it is individual client pages that have reports on them that don't need to be no indexed), would it work instead of adding 100+ url's to the tool 1 by 1 to just add the domainname.com/public_html ? (Which is where all the url's/files fall under)
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    If they don't need to be indexed, but are, what the heck? Who cares?

    You would need to modify permission and access to that directory,
    not doing it the way you described, by a password or other.

    Any other way is not going to be 100%. Plus there are caches,
    web archives, etc.

    Just skip the whole thing. Who cares?

    Nobody in the real world searching for real world things would ever see
    or feel a need to click on them anyway.

    I won't mention anything about "paying clients" Oops. Just did.

    Paul
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    If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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    • Profile picture of the author sodomojo
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      If they don't need to be indexed, but are, what the heck? Who cares?

      You would need to modify permission and access to that directory,
      not doing it the way you described, by a password or other.

      Any other way is not going to be 100%. Plus there are caches,
      web archives, etc.

      Just skip the whole thing. Who cares?

      Nobody in the real world searching for real world things would ever see
      or feel a need to click on them anyway.

      I won't mention anything about "paying clients" Oops. Just did.

      Paul
      The reason being is that the customer pays for information, and the client then sends the customer a link to where they can download the file. That file has personal information on it and if searching for that person by name you will find that page with personal information, make sense?

      Instead, as you suggested, adding a password, so instead of the customer clicking on the url to download his data, he will get a popup prompting him to enter his credentials, correct? If done this way, the search engines won't read that data, correct?

      Whereas that info is out there (potentially) and accessible if simply no indexing it or removing the url's in webmasters, correct?
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    You can just remove the folder under which all the urls exist.
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    ONE HOUR INDEXING - STOP WASTING MONEY ON LINKS GOOGLE NEVER FINDS
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    • Profile picture of the author sodomojo
      Originally Posted by SEO Power View Post

      You can just remove the folder under which all the urls exist.
      If the folder is removed, then how can the customer access the files? They are currently emailed a link to their file which opens up in a pdf on the url like this: clientdomainname.com/specific-url-for-this-client-only
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