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Thanks Thomas, I have uploaded a new site map to GMWT and hopefully that will cause Google to ignore those disappeared pages.

Best,

Mitty

Thanks for the advice and the links Thomas.

I've already gotten rid of the pages from my site and they are not malware inducing so not to worry.

My question is only concerned with webmaster tools. I can manually enter each link into the removal tool but that will take days.

I am aware that there is a option in GWMT to remove directories as well as individual urls i.e. if I had a site that had the following pages: www.example.com/plants/tulips & www.example.com/plants/roses

I could either enter both urls into the removal tool or simply put www.example.com/plants/ and designate it a directory both pages would be removed.

My question is to confirm if I have the following pages which have virtually identical pathways but for the dates 2084 and 3000:

http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar,m1a033,default,1&m1a033year=2084&m1a033month=3&m1a033returnid=59&page=59?phpMyAdmin=xxyyzz

http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar,m1a033,default,1&m1a033year=3000&m1a033month=3&m1a033returnid=59&page=59?phpMyAdmin=xxyyzz

Could I just simply use http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar as a directory, saving me having to write out the full pathways for both the pages.

Thanks Thomas.

It was a calender module with my CMS CMS Made Simple, it seemed to have generated thousands of pages which all linked to each page of my site so webmaster tools had listed my less than 100 page site (or so I thought) as having over 40,000 internal links pointing to each page.

I have deactivated it and added a site map to webmaster tools (GWMT) and that seems to have generated thousands of errors in the GWMT.

There is a list of the top 1,000 urls which are pretty much the calender pages and they are now returning 404 errors (as I have switched off the module so they are effectively deleted) but I want to have them deindexed so as to see if there is anything else hidden in the background.

I'm not completely sure with what you've sent me below. Are you concurring that if I add the below URL to the removal tool and select directory removal it will just target all those 404'd pages?

http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar

Hi all,

I had an issue where it turned out a calender was used on my site historically (a couple of years ago) but the pages were still present, crawled and indexed by google to this day.

I want to remove them now from the index as it really clouds my analysis and as I have been trying to clean things up e.g. by turning modules off, webmaster tools is throwing up more and more errors due to these pages.

Below is an example of the url of one of the pages:

http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar,m1a033,default,1&m1a033year=2084&m1a033month=3&m1a033returnid=59&page=59?phpMyAdmin=xxyyzz

The closest question I have found on the topic in Seomoz is:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-content-issue-6

I want to remove all these pages from the index by targeting their top level folder. From the historic question above would I be right in saying that it is:

http://www.example.co.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar

I want to be certain before I do a directory level removal request in case it actually targets index.php instead and deindexes my whole site (or homepage at the very least).

Thanks