Comments on: How to remove a web page from Google index and other search engines

By: Karen smith

Karen smith — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:34:05 +0000

This is all too complicated. I don’t know what a URL is or a Notepad. are you speaking of the notepad from my Yahoo email? What are robots? I don’t even know where to begin. I will pay you to delete my name off of Google. Google can ruin someone who is completely innocent. Is there a way to show me step by step exactly what to do?

I am not computer illiterate. I’m just not that good of a tech savvy person.

Help!!!

By: Parveen Hatefi

Parveen Hatefi — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:55:41 +0000

I need to get my name off of the google search engine. It is ruiing my chances of getting a job. When I checked the other day it was moved to the bottom of the second page. Today it’s back on the first page in the number one spot. Original source was the Naperville Sun. How can I get this removed? Please help me!!

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:34:54 +0000

I have a related question: Soon after publishing a new web page, we realized its content is more appropriate for one of our other domains, so we want to move the content to a new domain and remove it entirely from the old domain. Once we make the change, then give the new page some inbound link juice, won’t Google naturally recognize the old page on the original domain is no longer there and remove it from the rankings — almost like it never existed — then rank the new content as if it was brand-new to the web? (… which is what we’re after.) Thanks!

By: Kasey

Kasey — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:03:27 +0000

First of all, this post is about how to remove a page from Google’s index if you are the site owner. If someone else posted info about you, there is no way you can get it removed yourself.

Secondly, you can also use Google Webmaster Tools to remove pages on your site from their index.

By: Stalked

Stalked — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:46:49 +0000

Does anyone know of an email contact info for escalating a matter of harassment via Google/Blogger. “Reporting” abuse does nothing and there is no follow up, it’s just click the box and no place to point out how the TOS has been violated. I can not find a contact email anywhere to escalate a matter.

Any help is appreciated

By: Coery

Coery — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:00:12 +0000

A reporter out of state posted a report about me regarding an incident that took place in his district. Some of the information was in accurate and incomplete; in addition there was no follow-up done. Currently, this 8 year old report is still listed # 1 in my name search. How can I address this? (it is embarrassing)

By: Mrs G

Mrs G — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:05:46 +0000

I went to the link you gave me, it says they will not remove libelous or defaming stuff without a court order! How do I get a court order if I don’t know for sure who the author is! They have it set up like a profile or blog,I am not sure! Please is there anyway to have this deleted

By: akishore

akishore — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:03:41 +0000

@Mrs G – Your best bet to get the person to remove content that is harmful to your reputation is to contact the Blogger legal team. Here is the link:

http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76315

By: Mrs G

Mrs G — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:45:34 +0000

Please help us, someone made a blog on google blogger about myself and our company. When I clicked on the “report abuse” the blogger says it is freedom of speech, but it is libel pure and simple! please can you help us out, I saw the link about us on another blog and the admin of that blog removed it promptly but I saved it to my favorites so I have the link. It is not on the google search engines yet but I fear it might show up there. How can I get the whole page removed?? Please help me!

By: black hattitude

black hattitude — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:07:59 +0000

Nice article, i will complete my robots.txt now

By: Rohan

Rohan — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:18:23 +0000

@Comment no 2 (Ankur Jain),
It will work even if the page is already indexed. However, using the Google’s webmaster tools will do it fast.

Refer last line of google’s help: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93710

By: faith

faith — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:00:08 +0000

I am seeking for help. I was defamed and cyberstalked in the internet. 1)How can I totally remove a page of the cache from the search index? 2)Can I be able to remove the posted cache without letting the stalker/owner know?
Please help me!!!!

By: Humayun

Humayun — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:27:05 +0000

I want to remove a patient’s information from the website which otherwise will cause serious legal implications. Kindly do help

By: Ankur Jain

Ankur Jain — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:12:34 +0000

This method will work only if your web page is v new and is not already indexed by Google. If it is already indexed it won’t be deleted unless you go through the Google webmasters tools > link deletion route.

my $0.02

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:24:33 +0000

Keep in mind that if you place a line in robots.txt, it might have the opposite to the desired effect because you’ll be announcing that the file exists.

For example if you put
Disallow: /topsecretfile.html
then (most) search engines will ignore it, but any human that loads your robots.txt will learn of it’s presence.