Directory Indexed in Google, that I dont want, How to remove?
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Hi
One of my own websites, having a slight issue, Google have indexed over 500+ pages and files from a template directory from my eCommerce website.
In google webmaster tools, getting over 580 crawl errors mostly these ones below
I went into my robots text file and added
Disallow: /skins*
Disallow: /skin1*Will this block Google from searching them again? and how do I go about getting the 500 pages that are already indexed taken out?
Any help would be great
| http://www.rfkprintsolutions.co.uk/skin1/modules/Subscriptions/subscription_priceincart.tpl | 403 error | Jan 15, 2012 |
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http://www.rfkprintsolutions.co.uk/skin1/modules/Subscriptions/subscription_info_inlist.tpl | 403 error | Jan 15, 2012 |
|http://www.rfkprintsolutions.co.uk/skin1/modules/Subscriptions/subscriptions_admin.tpl | 403 error |Jan 15, 2012
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Hi Gareth
Thanks for that, I did think that is all it would take, but just wasnt sure if their was anything else I could have done to help remove all these pages from the index. The website has under-gone quite a big change in last few weeks with many of its pages being removed, so hopefully google will soon update its index.
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That will definitely work, it will just take a few weeks for Google to re-crawl the site and remove these urls from their index. Sit back and relax... the job is done!
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