Yahoo! Offers New Delete URL Option
February 2nd, 2007 by pamela
Yahoo! has launched a new tool which allows webmaster to very quickly remove a URL from the index if necessary. The Delete URL option, which is accessed via Yahoo! Explorer, not only deals with the removal of one URL, but also clears all associated subpaths.
Search Engine Land was lucky enough to spend some time with some of the Site Explorer team - Priyank Garg, Amit Kumar and Tim Mayer – who went over the Delete URL option and explained the differences between what the Delete URL function does in contrast to the usual robots.txt file and meta robots tag methods of keeping a page out of the index.
Danny Sullivan has posted an in depth explanation of how Delete URL works independently of the other two options; pages will continue to be crawled but similar to won’t get indexed.
