Published: Jan 22, 2008 - 01:49 pm
Story Found By: SpostareDuro 1481 Days ago
Category: Vertical Search
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If you want to remove stuff from search indexes permanently, not only Googles, then you need to serve verified crawlers a forbidden response code (see <a href="http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/getting-urls-out-of-google-the-good-popular-definitive-way/#definitive-content-termination">how to deindex content</a>).
Stumbled this just now..I had missed it when you first wrote it. Thanks..
Ill sphinn this not because this is such earth shaking news -- it was always only a temporary removal -- but because its a change from the previous 180-day temp removal.
There was confusion back in 2004 as to whether it was 90-days or 180-days, and even the Google documentation wasnt all that clear on the point.Things are more clear these days, but I much prefer the use of .htaccess and/or robots metadata or the robots.txt file to herd search engine bots.