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August 03, 2006
Yesterday's postwas about how BlogHer
attendees (and anyone else) can ensure that their web pages get indexed in Google. Here are more
tips:
If you want to keep Google from indexing some pages of your site, you can use a robots.txt file,
a simple text file that you place in the root of your site. We provide detailed information
aboutcreating a robots.txt file. You
can also use therobots.txt analysis toolin Google Sitemaps to make sure that your file blocks and allows the pages you intend.
If Google has indexed content that you don't want to appear in search results, you have two
options:
If you want to keep the content on your site, you can block that page with a robots.txt file
and thenrequest that we remove the pagefrom our index;
If you remove the content from your site (for instance, you decide that you revealed
information that is too personal and you edit your blog post), you canrequest a cache removal.
Good content keeps visitors coming back and compels other sites to link to you. In addition to
blog posts, you can provide othe types of content, such as video. A number of video hosting
sites are available includingYouTube,Yahoo! Video,
and our very ownGoogle Video.
At the conference, some attendees were asking about copyright, and to answer that question, youretain all rightsto any content you upload to Google Video.
If you're interested in running ads on your site, take a look atAdSense. The ads are related
to what you're talking about that day on your blog—and you can control what ads display.
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