How do you remove a page from googles index

[grown]

Hi I am new at Seach Engine Optimization, and my host created a under construction page for a week and now when I type in the key words in google "Grown Hydro" I get an untitled document indexed.

Please let me know what I can do


Thanking you in advance,

Jeremy

[alhefner]

You really don't have any control over Google's index. What you do is make sure that "under construction" page is gone from your server and eventually, Google will drop it from the database.

Just one more reason to keep tight control over your domain so that nobody is spreading links to your URL until you are ready for business.

[Toni Anicic]

If you want to remove a page from index you can do it via webmaster tools.

[alhefner]

I stand corrected!!! Now in the process of doing just that via webmaster tools.

[wige]

Bear in mind that generally, removing a URL through webmaster tools is a temporary fix. The page should be blocked with robots.txt or replaced with a 301 redirect as soon as possible to ensure it remains out of the index when the removal period ends.

[MikeinFlorida]

I'd say the best favor you can do for yourself is get to know the Google webmaster terms of service and webmaster tools section. That will save you a ton of headaches!

[SEObyCanz]

Bear in mind that generally, removing a URL through webmaster tools is a temporary fix. The page should be blocked with robots.txt or replaced with a 301 redirect as soon as possible to ensure it remains out of the index when the removal period ends

Yep This is the best idea.

[full house]

I think you can just place a no index in the bot tags or in meta tags. Don't know exactly how to do cause I'm not good at it.

[Toni Anicic]

Originally Posted by full house

I think you can just place a no index in the bot tags or in meta tags. Don't know exactly how to do cause I'm not good at it.

Meta no index would not remove it from the index as it is already indexed. You need to remove it from the index via webmaster tools as said before.

Also using meta no index is bad idea as it does not really stop search engines from showing up your page as a reference in search results. The best practice is to disable the indexing of unwanted site via robots.txt.

[xcaliburs]

Originally Posted by wige

Bear in mind that generally, removing a URL through webmaster tools is a temporary fix. The page should be blocked with robots.txt or replaced with a 301 redirect as soon as possible to ensure it remains out of the index when the removal period ends.

agree with this

[alby]

Use both webmaster tools and add robots.txt file as well, once the site is revisited, should after several attaempts probably remove the page from listings

[wige]

For clarification, is the page in question your homepage, which is indexed with the old content? Or is this an alternative URL (such as /index.html versus your new homepage at /index.php)? These two issues will have very different solutions, because some of what has been suggested would cause your homepage to be delisted if that is the page you are having issues with.