How to stop Google from spidering a series of pages

[ep2012]

Hi,

Someone hacked my WP & even though I got someone to go in & clean it up, Google still thinks the page & sub pages is there & keeps telling me there's so many 404 pages.

How do I stop G from thinking it's there so it stops spidering it?

Here's a SS

http://i972.photobucket.com/albums/a...-404Errors.jpg

Thanks


Michelle

[SteveGerencser]

You can manually remove the pages in GWT.

[ep2012]

But they don't exist, that's what I'm saying.

They certainly weren't my pages, the hacker snuck them in the code somewhere & the person who fixed it says they are gone.

I can't confirm this as I'm not a coder.

[SteveGerencser]

Go in to Google webmaster tools, and use the remove url option. Google thinks they exist. That's all that matters. Tell them they are gone. Then in 3 or 6 months they will try again, see the pages are still gone and stop trying to reach them.

[ep2012]

What a pain.

So I have to do all the pages separately? There's supposedly 1,000

[john2hot4u00]

With robots.txt you can use it to prevent indexing totally, prevent certain areas of your site from being ... penalized for spamming a search engine with a series of overly similar pages. ... You know that the spider that Google sends out is called 'Googlebot'.

[C0ldf1re]

But they don't exist, that's what I'm saying...

... Google thinks they exist. That's all that matters...

It looks like Google have "cached" your website. They have kept a copy on their own servers, and Google's copy still has the webpages that you have now removed from your real site. One essential is to prepare an updated sitemap and submit it to Google. With a bit of luck, Google will completely re-index your site and re-cache your site as it now is.

You can suppress 404 errors from appearing by adding this line to your htaccess file (in the root folder on your server):
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

(It is actually a very simple and easy thing to do. You just have to conquer the initial terror at the thought of touching the incomprehensible parts of the system. )