Comments on: 5 ways to de-index your site

By: You Can Get $10,000 if You Know How to Get a Site Re-Indexed by Google

You Can Get $10,000 if You Know How to Get a Site Re-Indexed by Google — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:52:08 +0000

[...] What could be the reason behind this Google action? Google folks will usually say that you violated its policies and others would mention many other reasons why all of a sudden your site does not get any decent traffic from Google such as PageRank-passing link selling or the selling of links on your page without using the no-follow attribute, the use of duplicate content or putting same exact texts on different websites, robots.txt, meta-tags, etc. [...]

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:03 +0000

Thanks for asking, here is the ultimate way to deindex your stuff.

(I know I’m quite late)

By: Links for week 51/07

Links for week 51/07 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:13:24 +0000

[...] 5 Ways to De-Index Your Website from Search Results [...]

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:31:33 +0000

No is the simple answer, the robots.txt file needs to be in the root of the site so example.com/robot.txt
One thing to watch out for is to make sure your comment only allows limited HTML elements if you allow any HTML some certain search engines will parse a meta tag below within the body tag which could be bad.

If you haven’t changed your comment file in Wordpress or Drupal you will be fine however as they both only allow a limited number of HTML tags

By: Lareli

Lareli — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:27:36 +0000

is it possible for people to place robot.txt in your blog posts via comments? will that de-index it? if so how do we stop that from happening?

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:53:50 +0000

You might want to check out the new Q&A section and in particularis my site banned? section on first glance it would appear it is

By: Michael @ Freshome

Michael @ Freshome — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:52:59 +0000

The website in cause is this - SITE REMOVED and the problem appeared a few days ago, without reason.

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:38:49 +0000

Hi Michael, there could be loads of reasons for your issues from a penalty to a simple algorithm hiccup without more info I couldn’t possibly help you.

By: Michael @ Freshome

Michael @ Freshome — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:05:12 +0000

What might be the reasons for a website dissapearing from Google. No duplicate content, not selling links, no spam. Just suddenly deindexed. Any idea ?

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:04:56 +0000

True but I wanted to mix some useful info and some humour, I also failed to mention x-robot headers as well and I’m sure many other full proof methods. Some one else mentioned just like a secure computer is one that is turned off, a non indexable web page is one not live on the web!