: I'd personally tell the client that Google will display results however Google feels best serves its userbase That's actually not entirely true. It is possible to have certain pages

@Radia820

I'd personally tell the client that
Google will display results however
Google feels best serves its userbase


That's actually not entirely true. It is possible to have certain pages on your domain--while navigable--are not indexed in the various search engines. In addition to properly setting up your robots.txt, you can insert the following:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">

in the head of any page you do not want indexed. Additionally, if you do not want the links to be crawled either, you would have it say NOFOLLOW instead of FOLLOW

Although these pages are cached right now, after a long period of no activity at that URI according to the crawlers, the listing should eventually drop. This only works on crawlers that play by the rules though, of course.

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