Removing Your Content From Google’s Index

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This is actually a subject I’ve talked about before, and now Google has written up a post containing information on how to remove content from the Google index.

There’s even information on how to “re-include pages” or “uh oh, get me back in”.

To reinclude content

If a request is successful, it appears in the Removed Content tab and you can reinclude it any time simply by removing the robots.txt or robots meta tag block and clicking Reinclude. Otherwise, we’ll exclude the content for six months. After that six month period, if the content is still blocked or returns at 404 or 410 status message and we’ve recrawled the page, it won’t be reincluded in our index. However, if the page is available to our crawlers after this six month period, we’ll once again include it in our index.

All in all this is a must-read for anyone who is concerned that bogus content is, or could end up in Google’s cache or index.

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