Comments on: How to lose your Google PageRank in ONE easy step! Q & A

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:52:47 +0000

Nice article, but I don’t think I was all that upset, I was just trying to relate how I thought most webmasters felt. Your “Google kicks us in the guts” title may have got more of a response though. Maybe I should change the title of my post.;)

By: Candy Tothill

Candy Tothill — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:05:42 +0000

This is a really helpful and enlightening piece of information Rich. I’m so happy to be able to leave all the web management stuff to you now. I love that you are complying with a code of ethics and I think it’ll mean a lot to your readers, advertisers and other stakeholders. I think that you’re setting a standard that lots of other people will want to follow. I love it when you use your power for good

By: Richard Catto

Richard Catto — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:51:21 +0000

Click here and your problems are over: Removing my content from the Google index

By: Steve Hayes

Steve Hayes — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:03:19 +0000

I used to host my web pages on Yahoo/Geocities — outside South Africa, so I’m unpatriotic, but most visitors come from the USA anyway.

Then in May 2006 Yahoo “lost” my pages. They vanished from the web, and I couldn’t get into the site to edit them.

After a week I moved my pages to another US free provider, Bravehost, and notified Google and other search engines.

Google, however, continued to list the old pages at Geocities, which were inaccessible.

After two months, however, the Geocities pages were “found” again, but in the meantime they hadn’t been updated. I didn’t want to update two sets of pages, so I updated them with “No follow” and “No robots”, and said many of the links to other pages to the ones on the Bravehost site.

But 18 months later Google STILL shows the Geocities pages on a search, and the others are in the “Results similar but not shown”.