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How can I have a URL removed from Google's indexing?

A friend wants her Facebook page to be obscured, but wants the page to remain intact. How do I help her remove it from the search indices?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    To prevent all robots from indexing her page place the following meta tag into the page's <HEAD> section:

    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

    This variation may be needed if she has access to the page's metatag section, but not its <HEAD>;

    %22%20%2F%3E%3CMETA NAME=%22ROBOTS%22 CONTENT=%22NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW%22%3E

    I'm not certain that this will work on Facebook, but that's the general idea for any web page.

  • 1 decade ago

    Right click the bar, then clear search history. Or, you can also clear the URLs from the History of your browser by clearing them all..

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