: Yes, that will fix the problem. To prevent content from showing up in Googles indexes you can either use robots.txt or the html meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />

@Sims2060225

Yes, that will fix the problem. To prevent content from showing up in Googles indexes you can either use robots.txt or the html meta tag

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />


The next time your site is indexed this will make your content drop out of the Google index.

You can also you the noarchive value – this will block caching of your page. This is Google specific:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />


You can use the ‘removal tool’ in Googles Webmaster Tools to request a very urgent removal of your content. Note that you should block indexing of your content first (using either robots.txt or the meta robots tag).

More info:

www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=164734 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=182072 www.robotstxt.org/meta.html

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