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    • Bridge_Education_Group
      Bridge_Education_Group last edited by

      Hi everyone,

      I'm hoping someone had this same situation, or may know of a solution.

      One of our sites was recently pharmahacked 😞 We found an entire pharmaceutical site in one of the folder of our site. We were able to delete it, but now Google is showing us on not found error for those pages we deleted.

      First, I guess the question is will this harm us? If so, anyway we can fix this? Obliviously we don't want to do a 303 redirect for spam pages.

      Thanks!

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      • cptops
        cptops last edited by

        You would use Google Webmaster tools to remove a page from Google Search index.

        1. On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want.
        2. On the Dashboard, click Google Index on the left-hand menu.
        3. Click Remove URLs.
        4. Click New removal request.
        5. 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. The URL is case-sensitive—use exactly the same characters and capitalization that the site uses.
        6. Click Yes, remove this page.
        7. Click Submit Request.
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