I had someone (very nice) e-mail me to have me help them remove their info that has been stuck in google’s index for many months. She had posted an ad with us, and several months ago asked us to delete her ad – a very normal thing, which we always honor within one day.
Well, if you do a search for her on google, and weird URL for our site comes up that isn’t even the right structure of URL’s we use, and some of her ad info is being pulled in – however, the ad page with her info has been removed for many months – it is not on the remote server – so nowhere on our site is her information still active on our site.
The weird URL structure is…weird – her ad “address’ appears after /index.cfm/ (the homepage file for our site – which is completely strange.
Anyways, she went into google’s webmaster tools, and asked them to remove the information by submitting a support request. We’ll see if it happens, which I hope it does. This is uncharted water for me – almost always if you remove a page, within a reasonable amount of time it is removed from search results.
I am reluctant to do a “404″ for the page, as I don’t want the index page of our site 404′ed as well – I’ll have to look into that more after I do a little more research. It just makes me a little nervous…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Happy Thanksgiving Canada 2009
It came around again so fast! It seems like each year, the holidays come around even faster than the last! It’s been a good year for me, and for Canada Rentals. Our traffic has grown, which was really the only main goal and accomplishment for the year. I have a friend that asks me every year about this time what my goals are for the coming year, and I’d have to say that for next year, in terms of Canada Rentals, I’d like to try to roll out some new features, and make the site more automated and user friendly. Whether I will find time for that, who knows.
I am thankful to be able to do this kind of work, and to make a living off of it. Nothing beats getting up and working with a good cup of coffee, some good music playing, and being able to go for a run, or even take a nap during the day whenever I want to. It is my hope that I can keep this up indefinitely.
I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving – and please, don’t work…or work too hard!
~ David