removing a site from google's index?

by mmmyway

Posted: 11 years ago 5 replies

Hi...
I have a nice website and while I built it I hired a developer to create a plugin for me.
The guy installed an offline version of my site on his test environment, developed the plugin, got payed, and our ways parted.

Now, suddenly I see that his test environment comes up on google search results!
For every search I make on google that my site appears on the first page, there's also his test environment version of the same page .
The domain that appears in google search results is an ip (of the test environment server I guess), and not a domain.
The test environment version is also old and outdated...I switched my theme since then...

Anyway - the developer has totally disappeared on me and I can't get in touch with him.

Is there something I can do about it?

Thanks!! :-)

#google #index #removing #site

spyindia 11 years ago

Hi..if you can provide your domain here then I can do some more analysis to find the exact reasons why you IP is showing in SERP.
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- mmmyway 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by spyindia
  
  Hi..if you can provide your domain here then I can do some more analysis to find the exact reasons why you IP is showing in SERP.
  
  Thanks for you reply!
  The ip is not mine.
  It's of the test environment the developer was working on...
  I guess it comes up in SERP because he was careless and forgot to block it in the first place so the question is not why it's showing in SERP, but rather - how can I block it if I can't get in touch with the developer?
  Is there any way I can let google know exactly what happened and ask THEM to block it?
  
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  samex4rill 11 years ago
  
  you can use google disavow tool to remove any links from google Serp
  do that by visiting https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...nks-main?pli=1
  
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  mmmyway 11 years ago
  
  Thank you very much for answering!
  
  Unfortunately it's not links I need to remove...
  It's the whole website which is not actually mine.
  The test environment is a copy of my site (not updated) on a strange ip something like:
  
  http://124.2.33.41/test/sitename/page.htm
  
  per each page...
  
  I need to somehow de-index the whole test environment.
  If I could reach the developer I'd ask him to block the test environment in robots.txt and that would be easy(I guess he forgot to do it in the first place) - but unfortunately the developer has disappeared on me...
  
  Thanks
  
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Brian Lett 11 years ago

Are you sure that your results are not just cached? Try using a different browser.

Also, what are you searching when the test environment comes up? (ie. your company name, your domain)?
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removing a site from google's index?

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