[Pro] Old pages still showing after upload

I just discovered after a web search that there is an old version of my web pages listed under my domain name. Which means people can see what amounts to my “test” uploaded pages, which were not meant for public viewing. My updated site is fine, but there seems to be a second index??? listed under my domain name. How do I get rid of the old file?


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You might find some help in this thread about a possible solution to people that follow the links to the ‘wrong’ pages. If those pages still exist you could change their names. Also ad meta data tags for the bots to no index/ no follow (use the action meta tags) for the test pages.

There is probably a better solution from the experienced sect.

Good Luck!

Frank

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On Nov 2, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Confused2 wrote:

I just discovered after a web search that there is an old version of my web pages listed under my domain name. Which means people can see what amounts to my “test” uploaded pages, which were not meant for public viewing. My updated site is fine, but there seems to be a second index??? listed under my domain name. How do I get rid of the old file?


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If your test page or folder is still showing in a Google search, you can login to Google webmaster tools and request that a specific URL be removed from the search results, e.g., http://domain.com/test/

Also, if you always upload test files to the same directory/folder, you can add that to a robots.txt file to tell search engines not to crawl it. Like this:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /test/

Robin


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For a few days ago Ive been thinking of it for this reason and others: Is it possible to make a web with no pages, just the domain? In this way, you avoid old files running around the net.

For example, I have http://www.godelia.tv/tenorio_temple.html but I would like to appear just http://www.godelia.tv with the page name hidden. In that way, I supossed you don’t have the problem with browsers, and by the other hand, if someone give the first link to another person, and the page became old, it will not be an error page. Id prefer people to say: “enter www,godelia.tv and search for Don Juan by Temple Teatro in their menu”. I know the link is more direct, but Id prefer the other.

Is it possible?


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For a few days ago Ive been thinking of it for this reason and others: Is it possible to make a web with no pages, just the domain? In this way, you avoid old files running around the net.

For example, I have http://www.godelia.tv/tenorio_temple.html but I would like to appear just http://www.godelia.tv with the page name hidden. In that way, I supossed you don’t have the problem with browsers, and by the other hand, if someone give the first link to another person, and the page became old, it will not be an error page. Id prefer people to say: “enter www,godelia.tv and search for Don Juan by Temple Teatro in their menu”. I know the link is more direct, but Id prefer the other.

Is it possible?


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