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11 years 3 months ago #13496 by stempelman
Hello:

When you go to takeyourpet.com and go to the bottom to see faqs all is well but I notice some of my site's pages showing up in Google that should not be there. For example
www.takeyourpet.com/faq-s/28-media.feed

I have no idea how these pages show up with the .feed suffix and faq-s in the path, which is the path I reserved for MooFAQ.

How do I fix this?

Thanks,

Steve

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11 years 3 months ago #13497 by douglas
Dear Steve,

Please go to Components -> MooFAQ -> Options (button in the toolbar) and under the Integrations tab set "Show feed links" to Hide.

It will take a while for Google to remove those pages from their index. If I'm not mistaken you can use Google Webmasters < www.google.com/webmasters > in order to remove pages from Google index.

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11 years 3 months ago #13525 by stempelman
Thanks Douglas but there is no such tab. When I click Options Article Manager Options comes up and there are only 4 tabs - slider, articles, category, and categories.

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11 years 3 months ago #13526 by douglas
Dear Stempelman,

That tab is present in the latest versions, so I assume you are using an older version.

Please upgrade to the latest version so you can gain access to that tab.

Best regards,

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11 years 2 months ago #13621 by stempelman
Thanks Douglas - did that but the pages still come up in joomla - I do not want them to come up so they'll return a 404 and drop from google.

For example, see


www.takeyourpet.com/faq-s/28-media.feed

Please advise. Thanks,

Steve

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11 years 2 months ago #13622 by douglas
Dear Steve,

By default it will take a while for your URLs to be removed from Google search, however if you want to you can go to www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitelinks -> Configuration -> Sitelinks and "Demote" some the URLs you want.

BEst regards,

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11 years 2 months ago #13648 by stempelman
Sorry that I was not clear - I understand they won't disappear from google overnight but what I am saying is I made the change you said but

takeyourpet.com/faq-s/28-media.feed

still comes up as a page and does not return a 404 as it should. How do I get *FROM JOOMLA* these pages that MooFAQ created to not exist anymore?

Hope that is more clear. Thanks,

Steve

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11 years 2 months ago #13650 by douglas
Dear Steve,

What that Options does is hide the feed, but active links will still work.

IF you get a 404 on your website most visitors will not remain on your site and you might have problems with Google Page rank because of those pages. What I suggest for you to do is to go to Components -> Redirect and create a redirect for those pages.

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