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Hey Dan,there is no content.
The whole website has been deleted, but it still appears in search results.

What should I do?
should I put back some content and then de-index it?

Thanks!
fabio

Hey Dan thanks a lot for all your help!
There still is a problem though. A while ago I had created an adult subdomain: adult.mywebsite.com

Then I completely deleted everything inside it (even though I noticed the subfolder is still in my account).
A few days ago, when I started this thread, I also created a GWMT account for adult.mywebsite.com and submitted a removal request for all those URLs (about 15).

Now today when I check:
site:mywebsite.com
or
site.adult.mywebsite.com

the URLs still appear in search results.

When I check
cache:adult.mywebsite.comit sends me to a google 404 page:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&gs_rn=31&gs_ri=hp&cp=26&gs_id=s xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So I don't know what this means...
Does it mean google hasn't deindexed them?
How do I get them deindexed?
Is it possible google is having troubles de-indexing them because they have no content in them or something like that?

What should I do to get rid of them?

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!
Fabio

Hi Dan,

1. Ok! I will.

2. When I click on the /go/ link in search results it redirects me to the affiliate website. I asked for the removal of /go/ a few days ago, but they (about 30 results) still appear in google when I search with the site:mywebsite.com trick.

What should I do about it? How can I get rid of them? They were created with the SimpleUrl plugin which I deleted about 3 months ago though.

3. Got it!

Thanks!
Fabio

Hey Dan,
thanks for the quick reply.

I have gone trough site:mywebsite.com and I found that tags and categories disappeared but there still is some content that shouldn't be indexed like this:

mywebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-flash-countdown/counter_cs3_v2_NoReflectLight.swf

and this:
mywebsite.com/go/affiliate-product/

and I found this:Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
in my robots.txt

Thing is that:

1. I have deleted that wp-flash-countdown plugin at least 9 months ago
2. I have manually removed all the urls with /go/ from GWMT and when I search for a cached version of them they are not there
3. If I remove Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/ from my robots.txt won't that get all my plugins' pages to be indexed? So how do I make sure they are not indexed?

Thank you so much for your help!So far you have been the most helpful answerer in this forum.

Hey Dan, thanks a lot for your help.

I have tried the cache trick on my home page and the cached version was about 4-5 days old.

I have then tried to cache:mywebsite/tag/ and it gives me a google 404 not found which I suppose is a good sign.

But if they have been de-indexed why do they appear in search results then?

I am not sure how to check the double SEO no-index in the source code though. How do I do that exactly? What should I look for after right-clicking -> source code?

Thanks for your help!

My MOZ account ends in two days so I may not be able to reply back next time.

Hey Dan thanks,
well, so google had indexed all my tags, categories and stuff.

The only things I had blocked in my robots was
/go/ for affiliate links
and
/plugins/ for plugins

so I did let google see that categories and archives pages were no-indexed.

I have also submit the removal request many months ago but I haven't quite understood what you say about the cache dates. What should I check?

Thanks for your help!

Hi there,
I know that it takes time and I have already submitted a URL removal request 3-4 months ago.
But I would really appreciate some kind advice on this topic.

Thank you in advance to everyone who contributes!

1) De-indexing archives

Google had indexed all my:
/tag/
/authorname/
archives.

I have set them as no-index a few months ago but they still appear in search engine.
Is there anything I can do to speed up this de-indexing?

2) De-index /plugins/ folder in wordpress site

They have also indexed all my /plugins/ folder. So I have added a disallow /plugin/ in my robots.txt 3-4 months ago, but /plugins/ still appear in search engine.

What can I do to get the /plugins/ folder de-indexed?
Is my disallow /plugins/ in robots.txt making it worse because google has already indexed it and not it can't access the folder? How do you solve this?

3) De-index a subdomain

I had created a subdomain containing adult content, and have it completely deleted it from my cpanel 3months ago, but it still appears in search engines.

Anything else I can do to get it de-indexed?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi,

I've posted my question in google websmaster forum but no reply.

Are you allowed to 301 redirect the clickable link in your youtube video to an affiliate site?

Hi there,

I'm creating a new website and I would like to start it in the best possible way. Content is the last of my problems, so is back links and social media. But I would appreciate your advice from an architectural point of view.

In my current sites I've been struggling organizing menus, categories and internal links in an SEO friendly way. I just haven't got it yet how to create an architecture that is both userfriendly and SEO optimized.

Could someone please give me some tips or point me to a recent article to build a SEO optimized website architecture?

How many menus in a page?
Keywords in the menu?
keywords in submenu?
Menu linking to categories or specific articles?
How many internal links?
permalinks with /category/ or /post-name/
menu in footer?
category including keyword?
categories in sidebar?
how many links is too many?
if in a page I have 101 links and nofollow 100 of them, does it count like if I have 1 link for SEO?

Basically all things related to setting up a linking architecture in a website to optimize organic traffic.

Thanks
Fabio

Hi Dan, thanks.

Thing is that there are hundreds of those "seomoz" bits inside my posts and it would really take a long time to remove them manually.

Are they harmful in any way? or can I just leave them?

Thank you

Hey Lesley,

thanks for your reply, and for taking the time to do the screenshots but I'm not using any add-on at all. I did use them in the past and know how they look like.

When I open one of my posts and pages and go to edit them in "text mode" I find inside my own posts these pieces of code:<a class="seomoz-highlight seomoz-highlight-nofollow" title="</p"></a>

<a class="seomoz-highlight seomoz-highlight-nofollow" title="</p">They are inside my posts and I have deleted some of them manually, but there are so many that I really would like someone from MOZ to tell me:</a>

<a class="seomoz-highlight seomoz-highlight-nofollow" title="</p">1) How and who gave them permission to put that stuff inside my own posts

2. how to get rid of them

The other problem was with the source code, but I guess YOAST sells website's datas to SEO companies through is SEO plugin and I simply need to get rid of that rubbish.</a>

Thanks but you haven't understood the question at all.