[thelist] Removing previous posts from thelist archives.

[Jose Hurtado]

Amanda,

Even if your site was spidered... a quick but imperfect solution would be
this:

- Remove the page from your webserver
- Publish it somewhere else
- Create a robots.txt in your web server telling the googlebot indexer to
NOT index that, more info on this here:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
- Ask Google to remove that page from their index... it will take a while,
but they might actually do it, they actually tell you HOW:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35301&topic=8459

OK done, take a Pina Colada and relax... nothing is worth the stress of a
small mistake, move on, and remember robots.txx are generally our friends,
be aware of them though ; )

Best Regards,

Jose L. Hurtado
Web Designer / IT Professional
Toronto, Canada




On 8/10/06, list terrine <list.terrine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Listites,
>
> Is it possible to remove previous posts from thelist archives?
>
> I made a terrible mistake a while back - I posted a message that was a
> plea for technical help, that included a link to a page on my client's
> website. This post is now coming up on Google when googling for my
> client's name - quite high up too, about 5th or 6th. Needless to say,
> they were not terribly impressed by my "professionalism".
>
> If it's not possible to remove the offending post, perhaps it's
> possible to prevent search engines finding it? I am not sure, so
> please, any help would be very very much appreciated. The thought of
> my mistake being alive and well on Google forever is filling me with
> despair.
>
> Thank you very much for any help at all!
> Amanda.
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