Remove a page from Google

[mojo999]

Hi, I removed a couple of unwanted page from my website about two days ago. Now they show up as 404 error pages from Google search. I want to remove remove these couple of pages from Google's index and I am aware that Google does have a removal request form. My question is that will Google remove these pages from the index automatically the next time it crawls my site? Or must I go through the requesting process?

 

[abhorrent]

They probably will eventually. If you have a webmaster tools account though, why not just submit a removal request or just forward them?

 

[erect]

<?
    Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
    Header( "Location: http://www.domain.com/yournewpage.php" ); 
?>

 

[DaKnightFall]

<?
    Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 
    Header( "Location: http://www.domain.com/yournewpage.php" ); 
?>

i was going to say that :love-smiley-083:
yeah, code your pages to redirect them to wherever you want them to go.