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Force Google to Recrawl After Omitted Page in HTAccess?

by momo3
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Hello My Friends..

I was just wondering if anyone could kindly give me advice on how to get Google to see that I have omitted a page in HTAccess. In other words, maybe force it to recrawl the site?

The client does not want to use WMT.

If anyone could help me it would really be great.
#force #google #htaccess #omitted #page #recrawl
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Test a Google speed test on the exact old URL where the page has been deleted.
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Ok thanks buddy.

    So if its a domain called catfood.com
    and the page we have told HTAccess to ignore is catfood.com/kittens.html... I place that into the page you gave me?


    How quickly will the page then disappear from the SERPs?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by momo3 View Post

      Ok thanks buddy, how quickly will the page then disappear from the SERPs?
      I have no idea, that's why I said test.

      The more attention you draw to the old URL the faster Google will see the page no longer exist.

      I would make sure to 301 the old URL back to a live page, that way the already ranked old page/URL will get forwarded to another live page on the same domain, even while the old ranked SERP listing still exist. You can do the redirect right now.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      The page may never disappear.
      If it does, it may come back.

      Delete the page and let nature take its course.

      If there is a reason not to crawl the page, then a 301
      does not make sense in this case. If you don't want google
      to crawl and index a page that has value, then it's a
      different animal.

      If it's just a page that changed, then anybody taking
      clients would know what to do. If it's a page you
      just don't want crawled, again, anyone taking clients
      should know what to do also.

      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 momo3
    Yukon

    I am incredibly sorry.

    I think that I may have explained myself wrong.

    We are basically trying to get a page to get removed from the SERPs.

    We do not want to actually delete the page, we just want to omit it from coming up in google.

    We had someone do it in the HTAcess.

    Will it still work to put it in that Google test thing and also ping it, etc? WE are just trying to get it omitted from G faster.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by momo3 View Post

      Yukon

      I am incredibly sorry.

      I think that I may have explained myself wrong.

      We are basically trying to get a page to get removed from the SERPs.

      We do not want to actually delete the page, we just want to omit it from coming up in google.

      We had someone do it in the HTAcess.

      Will it still work to put it in that Google test thing and also ping it, etc? WE are just trying to get it omitted from G faster.
      Ok,

      First do the 301 redirect, If it's no big deal to temporarily hide the page from traffic. This will force all traffic for the ranked page to go to another internal page, they won't see the actual page that's ranked.

      Next, do a noindex on the ranked page. Make sure you do a noindex on the correct page because Google will eventually stop indexing that page/URL.

      That (above) won't remove the ranked URL from Google SERPs but it will immediately (right now) keep SERP traffic from viewing that old page.

      Google should self correct the SERPs over a few days, it's impossible to give an exact time frame, but it shouldn't take very many days to update the SERPs.

      Once Google updates the SERPs then remove the 301 redirect, make sure to keep the noindex on the old page you don't want in the SERPs.
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      • Profile picture of the author momo3
        Ok thanks a lot!
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Its a friend rather than a client. I don't know a ton about SEO and was seeking help. I apologize.
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