Matt Cutts Illustrates How to Remove URLs from Google

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January 10, 2008

Matt Cutts Illustrates How to Remove URLs from Google

Ever wanted to know the clear-cut way to remove URLs from Google? Matt Cutts shows you how in this video that was highlighted in the Google Webmaster Central blog:

Good stuff. I'm still not a videophile though. (My question to Matt: have you been inspired by Whiteboard Friday?)

Forum discussion continues at Search Engine Watch Forums.

posted Tamar Weinberg in Google Optimization at January 10, 2008 9:00 AM Comments (4)

Comments

.htaccess for iis ?

LOL.. Its a good vid but of those people site using windows don't get cover in this..

Posted by gabs at January 10, 2008 10:09

gabs, what is this IIS of which you speak? ;) Seriously though, I described .htaccess because a lot of people are familiar with it, but you could do similar things on IIS to deny Googlebot.

Tamar, I enjoy Whiteboard Friday. In this case, I just happened to be in an office with a whiteboard, so I decided to go for it. But I also used a whiteboard a long time ago in my Googlebot video: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-crawl-dates-in-the-google-cache/

Posted by Matt Cutts at January 10, 2008 12:09

BFF, you're well aware that Matt's SEO videos more than pre-date Whiteboard Friday. :)

Posted by Lisa Barone at January 10, 2008 12:24

Yes, I know, but there was a lot of whitespace in that post and I needed to say something... :)

Posted by Tamar Weinberg at January 10, 2008 14:02