How to remove out-dated pages from Search Engines

[brandrocker]

I'm working on a site that has lots of pages indexed in Major Search Engines.

Fact is that, those pages do not exist anymore.
Since the site uses Joomla version 1.0.11 which returns HTTP 200 ( Success ) status code for pages that are not found, so, how could I tell search engines to remove old entries?

Please help.

[Fort Worth Realtor]

I have the same problem, i had an seo company that pionted a whole bunch of badlinks to one of my pages and they still show up in google in the supp results. they have been removed from my server for months

[Webnauts]

I'm working on a site that has lots of pages indexed in Major Search Engines.

Fact is that, those pages do not exist anymore.
Since the site uses Joomla version 1.0.11 which returns HTTP 200 ( Success ) status code for pages that are not found, so, how could I tell search engines to remove old entries?

Please help.
Try to redirect those old pages urls to the new ones with for example 301 permanent redirects. Or exclude them in your robots.txt

[Webnauts]

I have the same problem, i had an seo company that pionted a whole bunch of badlinks to one of my pages and they still show up in google in the supp results. they have been removed from my server for months
Can you be more specific? Did they add links to you on others web sites?

[brandrocker]

I'm working on a site that has lots of pages indexed in Major Search Engines....
Please help.



Try to redirect those old pages urls to the new ones with for example 301 permanent redirects. Or exclude them in your robots.txt


Thanks for your reply.

Tried out both of them. But SEs (Apart from MSN) just can't pick up the changes.

Problem gets more complicated as Joomla version 1.0.11 shows HTTP 200: Success for pages that are not found.

If you can tell me how to rectify the HTTP status codes in Joomla that will help me a lot.

[Webnauts]

I am sorry, but I cannot help you with the Joomla issue. Those are some things that my web developers team do.

Why don't you post this question here? http://www.webproworld.com/viewforum.php?f=17

I am pretty sure that someone can help.

[incrediblehelp]

I am little confused? Why are you concerned that these pages are still cached? When some on clicks on them they get a 404 right? Eventually they will drop out of the SE index.

[Webnauts]

I am little confused? Why are you concerned that these pages are still cached? When some on clicks on them they get a 404 right? Eventually they will drop out of the SE index.
But doesn't that violate the quality guidelines?
Broken links?

[incrediblehelp]

Well from what I understand their are no broken links. The pages simple don't exist. Nothing wrong with this. Many websites kill old pages without redirecting them. I would recommend using a 404 error handler though.

[brandrocker]

I would recommend using a 404 error handler though.


The problem is that with Joomla CMS, you can not generate 404 error, it shows 200 success in stead of 404 for pages that do not exist anymore.

[incrediblehelp]

Well this cant be overrided in the htaccess file? Can you post an example?

[Webnauts]

Well this cant be overrided in the htaccess file? Can you post an example?
Good point. I would like to see that too.

[Fort Worth Realtor]

my problem was they pionted a whole bunch of pr0 andd pr1 to my site though some link program. They where on ways but werent relevent at all. They still show up in the supp results. i delete the link on my page to this link thing.

[Webnauts]

i delete the link on my page to this link thing.
Well done.