Stuart Ferguson

Yeah hopefully – thanks for your help ??

Person who raised this issues says they have not had these alerts in the last few days to the URL Removal tool may have worked.

I had actually tried the URL Removal tool earlier but was waiting on the process to complete https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

When I try to use the tool to remove the link again it says it has now been removed. So I will check to see if those Google alerts are still coming in with the person who reported them.

This may be the answer as on checking this Matt Cutts vid: https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/remove-your-content-from-google.html it would seem that robots.txt may stop Google crawling a URL but doesnt necessarily stop the content showing up in Google a different way. However the removal tool is stronger than the htacess method and useful for removal rather than prevention.

Thanks for your help on this – I will update if this has in fact worked.

I dont think there is a filter that can be set at the content owners end (obviously alert consumers can decided what alerts they get) – I Google searched for ways to prevent content being selected by the Google Alerts but could not find anything – most people were trying to do the opposite.

The /wp-admin/ folder is already disallowed in the robots.txt but this is not stopping it being found.

Event Manager adds the URL in a JS script to the site pages surrounded by commented out CDATA tags. Would the old method of putting html comment tags around JS code (as discussed here: stackoverflow.com/questions/1507939/using-html-comment-tag-still-relevant-around-javascript-code) work?

This approach is no longer required for modern browsers but if we did this perhaps Google alerts would ignore the content – if it uses a different crawler which seems to have found this link within a script tag?

sort of – the URL is rockliffehall.com so yes but as you can see – without the space

Ah I see – its “rockliffe hall”

Hi Caimin

Thanks for replying – the alert in the notification email has the following:

#################################################################
Google

[the alert term]

As it happens update May 8, 2014

WEB

[site domain]
#################################################################

and when you go into the Google alerts dashboard the related entry is:

############################################################
WEB 1 new result for [site domain]

https://[site domain]/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=locations_search
[site domain]
[site domain]/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action…
############################################################

Is that useful?

Thanks
Stuart

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