: Will google "forget" unlinked pages? If i remove all links to a page, but do not delete the page from the site (nor block it from being requested), will google eventually "forget" about it
If i remove all links to a page, but do not delete the page from the site (nor block it from being requested), will google eventually "forget" about it when it reindexes the site? Assuming of course there are no other links to the page somewhere else externally.
Or will google continue to request the page and verify it in the index and keep it around so long as it returns a valid page?
Is this similar for Bing et al?
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If a search engine knows about a page they will remember it and request it even if it is not linked to. If you want Google to remove a page from their index you should request it in Google Webmaster Tools and then block it via a variety of methods including robots.txt or the x-robots HTTP/meta tag.
Sample robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /path/to/file.html
Sample HTTP header:
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
Sample meta tag:
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
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