Google webmaster blog has released a news about the new tool Requesting removal of content from Google’s index.

In Google webmaster tools, the diagnostic tab will have URL Removals option. To get started, simply click the URL Removals link, then New Removal Request. From the screen, choose your option.

• Choose “Individual URLs” option if you’d like to remove a URL or image. The URL or image to be removed must be,
• The URL most return a status code of either 404 or 410.
• The URL must be blocked by the site’s robots.txt file.
• The URL must be blocked by a robots meta tag.
• Choose “A directory” option if you’d like to remove all files and folders within a directory on your site.
• Choose “Your entire site” option only if you want to remove your entire site from the Google index. This option will remove all subdirectories and files.
• Choose “Cached copies” option to remove cached copies of pages in our index.
• Choose “Using a meta noarchive tag and requesting expedited removal option”, If you don’t want the page cached at all, you can add a meta noarchive tag to the page and then request expedited cache removal.
• If you want to remove the cached version of a page because it contained content that you’ve removed and don’t want indexed, you can request the cache removal using “Changing the page content” option.
• Check your status regarding the removal, and you also have option to reinclude your removed sites.

This improved feature will make the removal of content from Google more easier.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google Webmaster tools, Google, Search Engine Optimization

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