How can I remove old content from Google's index?

Sebastian from Germany asks: "We still have old content in the index. We block them via robots.txt, use 404 and delete them via Webmaster Tools, but Google keeps it. What can we do to quickly delete content from the index?

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• content
• index
• robots.txt

[villainy73]

I wonder if Rupert Murdoch found this tip helpful?

[seanybyne1982]

Cool.... But does anyone know how you submit a question for Matt to answer?

[mrOakden]

absolutely lame

[Barrystaar]

'Balderdash' (cleaned-up version of '######ks') ... Real prob is that I do not know

me 404's from me 200's ... Note-to-self:- Must get out more often cos I'm losing

the will to liv ..........

[BODHS1]

lame answer, worthless....

[cantona07ish]

I hate google all i want to do is exclude a page how the hell do i do what hes saying aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhh

[hughmanwho]

I guess the question still remaining is, if you do all those things how long does it take for Google to remove the page? I'm guessing next time it crawls the site?

[sayweb]

very good. I did not know. GreatClip

[DewiVulpes]

redirect 410 page.ext in .htaccess FTW.

[seanybyne1982]

Cool my man! I will go visit that later! ;0)

[UmFernandoPessoa]

Yep. I think it's there. I place a question there and I'm still waiting to see if Matt picks it up.