: De-indexing pages and checking with Google's site: command I am trying to de-index a certain url from google, but for some reason it just isn't working. I added this snippet: <meta name="googlebot"

@Samaraweera270

There are pages in Google's index that were crawled on 10th August that do not have the noindex metatag. So you probably just need to be patient and wait for the Googlebot to recrawl your page.

However, if you want to request a removal of certain pages from the index, you can do this through Google Webmaster Tools [instructions]:


If you own the site


Verify your ownership of the site in Webmaster Tools.
On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want.
On the Dashboard, click Site configuration in the left-hand
navigation.
Click Crawler access, and then click Remove URL.
Click New removal request.
Type the URL of the page you want removed from search results
(not the Google search results URL or cached page URL), and then
click Continue. How to find the right URL. Note that the URL is
case-sensitive—you will need to submit the URL using exactly the same
characters and the same capitalization that the site uses.
Click Remove page from search results and cache.
Click Submit Request.



From here:

www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=164734

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