Protect Your Business by Removing Pages from Google

Sometimes webmasters make mistakes. Yes, even I admit I’ve made a mistake once (or twice) when it comes to managing our websites. But what do you do when you or your webmaster makes a mistake, the mistake is indexed by Google, but you don’t want it to be? There’s so much focus on getting into Google, what do you do if you want a certain pages removed from Google?

Some may wonder why you’d want to remove pages from Google? Well, like I said, mistakes happen. Maybe you or your webmaster accidently published the social security numbers of your employees or personal information of customers. You certainly don’t want this type of information to be made available if someone searched Google for right combination of keywords. These mistakes can be quite costly if not dealt with quickly.

Good news is that one of the features built into Google’s Webmaster Tools allows you to remove specific pages from their index by request. In the following video, Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, covers how to best remove pages from Google’s index as well as various ways to make sure certain pages remain out of Google’s index.

Matt Cutts discusses Webmaster Tools and how to remove URL’s from Google

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