: Can I drop multiple URLs from Google's Cache using a wildcard in a query string? I made a mistake with one of my sites and a whole bunch of data got picked up by Google before I caught

@Cody1181609

I read a Google article saying that if you block the robots from reading the pages then Google doesn't crawl them but also does not know that they are no longer there - prolonging the pages from disappearing from your Webmaster Tools report

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@Nimeshi995

I don't think you can delist with a wildcard. Plus a manual delist only lasts for 90 days. You would be better off making a correct robots.txt and letting Google reindex. They should drop your pages that are no longer meant to be crawled, but I don't know how quickly that will occur.

See: www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156449&hl=en
You should also add the "noindex" meta tag to your memberprofile.php pages.

See: www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93710
EDIT: Did a little more digging...

Instructing Google to drop just the cache, not the entire page, from the index.

See: www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=164734
Proper URLs submitted mention nothing about wildcards, and the section about "Multiple URLs" says to submit each one separately. I don't think wildcards are supported, possibly by design.

See: www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=63758

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