Re: 'Force' Google to remove non-existent pages
Thanks Wige.
Since my hosting provider kinda sucks, I've contacted them about either providing me with the ability to change the .htaccess file or I will give them the instructions that you gave me and provide them with alternative links to redirect those to other pages on the site. If you're right about them possibly being viable links, it would probably be better to redirect them rather than block them.
Question:
One of the "problem pages" is the index page - the old page was "index.html" and the new/current page is "index.htm".
Is there some way to add a line or two of code in the .htaccess file so that whether the page is index.htm or .html, browsers will recognize them as one and the same? So if down the road it was "accidentally" changed to index.html, those with links to index.htm won't get a 404 error and vice-versus?
Another question:
Can I use Google tools or some other method to "backtrack" what sites have those links to those pages? I've never done it before and I don't know how or if it's possible. There's one of them that I don't even know what it originally was (therefore, I don't know where to redirect them to).
Last edited by MarkGatESS; 08-07-2008 at 10:59 AM.
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