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Re: why does google search come up with broken links?
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heartbit
on 06/07/2014, 03:23:26 UTC
Hi -

I can help you with this - I used to be a Search Engine Optimization geek before the Bitcoin bug bit me... Smiley

Here is the process:
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  • Register for Google Webmaster Tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/)
  • Add your site and verify ownership (eg. upload a small file to prove it is your site) - Google guides you through this
  • Make sure the page you want to remove is set to prevent Google from re-indexing it (e.g. add to robots.txt and/or set page meta tag to ROBOTS="NOINDEX, FOLLOW, NOCACHE, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET") (yes, the FOLLOW is intentional here!)
  • Use the Remove URLs feature (under Google Index) in the sidebar menu (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/url-removal)
  • Give the full address of the page you want removed from Google, e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/fred/jane/bananas.html
  • Leave the default setting for "Remove page from search results and cache"
  • Wait about 24-48 hours and the URL should be gone from Google's index (it takes a little time to take effect, there are actually multiple copies of the index worldwide)
Hope this helps
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