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21 Responses to “How to delete website from Google search results”

1. zeeshan (1 comments.)
   August 9th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

   

   sir most respectfully . i recently upload website .but when i upload first time some pages problem . so i delete all web page . and again upload web with new pages in google the problem is that when i enter url in google search the google show old web page http://www.insprie.com/man cloths .but i need http://www.insprie.com tell me what i do …..

2. Pawel Szulencki (18 comments.)
   August 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

   

   @zeeshan What i understand is that you want to delete your old web page from Google search results by deleting the files from your server. When you do that be aware that Google spiders may not visit your website immediately so Google may not know that you have deleted your files from the server, especially if you uploaded them right away after deleting them.
   What i suggest is to delete the pages for longer period of time to give Google time to index your site again and to exclude the removed pages from its indexes. You should also consider inserting robots.txt file or noindex meta tags on the pages you wish to exclude from search engines. You can also use Google webmaster tools and use the exclusion form to exclude that particular web age from Google search results.
   In any case you should wait for results.

3. rb
   August 18th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

   

   I posted a blog, and on one page used five people’s names. Now whenever you search any of the people in this family under google, my blog comes up. When I realized that I had posted this material publically, in a state of pain, I deleted my entire blog. Then I tried to verify my site, which was a blog through google- blogspot.com–but could not. Without it being verified, I could not use the “remove url request” tool for my own website. At the end of the night, devastated, I just deleted the entire account. All of these mistakes have amounted to the fact that the cached link is still available under google search results, even though I deleted the original page. There will be pressing legal matters this evening, if I do not figure out how to remove this cached material. HOW DO I DO THIS, now that I have no control over my old blog or web account at google? Help pplease!

4. Pawel Szulencki (18 comments.)
   August 18th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

   

   @rb
   Now that you have deleted your account and have no control over it the situation is a bit complicated. But there is a solution to everything.
   You can log in to your Google account and go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals page where you can request a removal of a site that is not yours (since you deleted your blogspot account you are not the owner of that site anymore). The site should now return a 404 (file not found) response and is suitable to be requested for removal from Google indexes.
   It may take some time and there is no way to delete your old blog from Google search results in 5 minutes, but it should take considerably less time if you make an inquiry through that form.
   You may read more about that tool at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/04/requesting-removal- of-content-from-our.html under “Requesting removal of content you don’t own” section on the bottom of the page.
   And for the future keep in mind that you may use meta tag to prevent all search engines from showing a “Cached” link for your site.
   It is also much better if you have control over the content you wish to remove as you have more options to chose from then. In your situation thats the solution that comes to my mind.

   Hope that helps.

   If you need more assistance please let me know.

5. rb
   August 18th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

   

   I have done this; it is a pending process. I added to this request format already the entirety of the blog, and tried to add the cache URL, but this is not permitted. I added the exact link of the URL that is no longer available to the request removal site. I hope this works; the problem is the stupid cached link!

   Thank you for such a timely response. I wish I hadn’t gotten my hands stuck in this online mess, but it has definitely taught me to protect myself and what I write online. So, yes lesson learned. In the mean time–

   know of any way to get web-crawlers to the old site, to realize that information is no longer up to date, and make them note this. How long does the web-crawling process take usually; I cannot let this cached link sit on the web for longer than this week.

   If you have any answers to this, let me know. If not, thank you so much for your help already.

6. Pawel Szulencki (18 comments.)
   August 18th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

   

   @rb
   Thats good.
   To get web-crawlers to visit your site you need to request for URl submission. That way search engines will visit your site and see it doesnt exist (404 File not found) and delete it from its indexes. Here are add URl request forms for major search engines:
   Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/
   Yahoo!: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
   MSN: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
   You may also use one of the free submission tools available on the Internet, for example http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html Just enter your URl and e-mail address and it will automatically submit your URL to many search engines at once. They will visit your site and exclude it from its indexes.

   How log does it takes? Hard to say. It may be 1 hour, it may be 1 week. I cant promise anything, i dont work for Google

   Deleting the website from Google indexes will also remove its cached version, so if they delete your site according to your inquiry that should mean also deleting your cached version.
   From Google help center:”…you can use the webpage removal request tool to ask us to expedite the removal of the old webpage content (also known as ‘cached copy’)…” meaning that removal of a page equal removal of its cached version - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=508&topi c=13511

7. rb
   August 18th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

   

   and all is in google’s hands! Thank you. I have done everything you suggested– it is wonderful to know that there are still people (I’m preying your not a web robot) that can help sort out the mistakes made on the world wide web. I had read that it could take from a day to three years to remove cached material; but I think I have made it very clear to Google the urgency of this request. Best of luck with the internet (I’m projecting).

   Thanks again!

8. Pawel Szulencki (18 comments.)
   August 18th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

   

   @rb
   No problem and dont worry, the last time i checked i was a human, not a robot
   Let me know how did it go and how fast did you managed to remove the cached version of your blog from Google.
   All the best,
   Pawel

9. Afraid and Hopeless
   January 29th, 2009 at 4:59 am

   

   hi Everyone, i have been reading a lot of your comments on your site and i have done something crazy and do not know how to get around it. Here is my sorry story - i went into a website and started adding my comments on some peoples profiles. Some of these comments were, as i thought private messages. I also added my other email address with the message. I was then horrified to find that the site showed the profile messages in the public arena and i contacted the site help line and was told how to delete the messages - this i did and was very much relieved that they had gone. then a week later I did a google search and on various other search engines - i searched just the front end of my other email address and was horrified to find my messages and email address on about 10 profiles on two particular web sites links - after i got up off the floor - i have been trying to find out how these can be deleted but so far your site is the only one that has given me some hope. I would rather die than these personal messages be read by my family or friends. I am even fearing writing this message thinking if i search my name everyone will know my business and also check my other email address out and see such personal and somewhat explicit messages from me. I am now desperate i am not a technical person so I cant really help myself but please please help me. With great respect and i look forward to your reply. Gary

10. Pawel Szulencki (171 comments.)
    January 30th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    

    @Afraid and Hopeless: What i would do is to contact those people that you have written messages to and ask them to delete them from their profiles. If it doesnt work, contact webmasters of forums/blogs/websites that you have wrote those comments on and ask them to delete it for you. Write exactly what happened and be honest about your problem. Tell them that you made a mistake and you would like to ask them to help you out with this problem.
    After they delete those messages you need to either until Google deleted cache version of those pages and you will be fine.
    I hope it helps.
    If you need more help let me know.

    All the best,
    Pawel

11. Afraid and Hopeless
    February 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    

    Thanks for the information I will try your suggestions out and let you know how i get on. I think my tale should be a warning to everyone using the net. All our information is out there somewhere - so everyone think before you get too carried away in giving you personal details to anyone.
    Thanks again for your help.

12. Pawel Szulencki (171 comments.)
    February 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    

    @Afraid and Hopeless: Yes, everybody should be careful about giving away their personal informations. I hope everything will go well for you.

13. manuel barbosa gomes
    March 2nd, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    

    Hello dear friends

    Well i have a company, and the competitions, dont like my company, so they go to the blog and forum, and put false post, about my company and product, and that post show in the search engine of google and they are doing a bad reputions to my company.

    Questions: Cant i erase that lies/and false facts from my company and products from the search engine ???

    I have bad sales since they put this lies in the google engine search.

    How cant i erase this ???

    THANKS

14. manuel barbosa gomes
    March 2nd, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    

    Sorry my email is manuelbarbosagomes@gmail.com

15. Pawel Szulencki (171 comments.)
    March 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    

    @manuel barbosa gomes: I have updated your email Manuel.
    If you have a prove that what they say is a lie you should contact the forum/blog administrators/webmasters/owners and honestly tell them the whole situation. Politely ask them to delete those posts from their websites.
    You can also answer to all those posts on those websites and answer to all allegations. Defend your company name and prove that whoever posted those texts is wrong and show to everyone that your services/products are genuine and true. That way you will change the bad reputation into a good reputation and you will gain link back to your site.

16. Scared Sick
    March 6th, 2009 at 2:58 am

    

    Dear Pawel,
    I am in a similar situation as “Afraid and Hopeless” and hope that you may be able to provide some advice. Some time ago, I made a post on a forum that included an individual’s name. It was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done and there are legal and personal consequences.
    I had the forum webmaster remove the page. However the way the forum is set up, when a post is removed, it does not show a dead page, showing a 404 error. Instead, there is a default live page from the forum that says “there is no thread specified”. Because of this, when I use google’s removal tool, it wont remove the result because the page is still technically “live”.
    I dont know what to do. I checked the page, and there is no mention of the individual’s name on the page anymore nor are there any links with the individual’s name pointing to the page. The forum webmaster helped by removing my posting but he is not willing to rewrite coding for his entire website just so Google will not index this one removed page.
    What can I do? I have tried for months and nothing I have tried has worked. I have actually developed health issues over this.

17. Pawel Szulencki (171 comments.)
    March 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    

    @Scared Sick: Since the page where you have posted those information have changed and does not present those information anymore, what seems to be the problem? Google cache? Way Back machine?
    You can ask the forum moderator to redirect 301 that post page to the home page of his forum. That way anyone accessing that old post of yours will end up on the home page, including search engines who will not index that page anymore thanks to 301 redirect. He can use simple .htaccess file and he doesnt have to rewrite his forums code just to do that. Its simple and painless procedure.
    Hope it helps.
    Paweł

18. frustrated and desperate(new comment)
    October 10th, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    

    hey pawel! i need help badly here. i currently have an account in deviantart. Since it is easy posting stuff there, that’s where i usually post my private messages/letters/notes. Anyway, there is a ‘hide’ button that i can click on to, well, hide the messages whenever i desire. The problem is, when I type particular keywords included in those personal letters/notes in google or yahoo, the index will show up, front page, the message! Good thing that even if i click on the link, nothing shows and everything is hidden when redirected to that account in deviantart, but in that damned google result, snippets of my PRIVATE MESSAGES are SHOWN???

    i typed the keywords of my professor’s surname, and my nickname
    example:

    m***** on deviantART
    17 March 2009 … this is me, m*****, gosh i just i hate my prof, i mean she is the epitomy of evil. her name screams dis-gus-ting. god. Ms. ***** is a frickin’ witch …
    m*****.deviantart.com/ - Cached - Similar

    WTF is happening? I already hid it, yet still it shows in the results page?

    Help!

19. Pawel Szulencki(new comment)
    October 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    

    @frustrated and desperate: Hi. You could ask devianart administrators to use nosnippet meta tag in the head section of every page where a message is hidden:

    meta name=”googlebot” content=”nosnippet”

    That is possible and would avoid all users from such situations as yours. It could be done automatically whenever a “hide” button is used. You can try to convince them (devianart) that whoever uses “hide” button also wants to hide their messages from search engines.
    Paweł

20. Peter(new comment)
    November 13th, 2009 at 6:40 am

    

    If I delete my blogger blog, will my webpage removal request not work? Does the site need to be intact before google will see the 404 errors specific to pages I want removed from the cache?

21. samson jack(new comment)
    November 17th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    

    how do i delete a website and don’t let it appear or show again….?