I did a cache search in Google for my site http://www.factfiend.com and found that there are many files cached that shouldn’t be.
Such as this: http://www.factfiend.com/td_d_slug_2/
How do I remove these files. They serve no purpose and the search engines may be confused by them.
You can see there a few here: https://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=active&q=site%3Afactfiend.com&oq=site%3Afactfiend.com&gs_l=serp.3…3797.5164.0.5348.9.9.0.0.0.0.82.508.9.9.0….0…1c.1.32.serp..9.0.0.nVxCCI9vWEA
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
there is a problem with this permalink: http://www.factfiend.com/td_d_slug_2/ it should return 404 page not found. If you are using a caching plugin please disable it and see if the link returns 404.
Also try to regenerate the permalinks by switching to the wp default ones and back again to the nice ones.
The pages that return 404 will disappear from Google with time.
Hope this helps.
OMG!
What is going on here?
Just did a site search in google and noticed a bunch of these pages/posts have been indexed. How is this possible?
I’m using Yoast. And have my permalinks done right, why are these showing up in the engine?
http://www.mydomain.com/td_d_slug_4/page/4/
http://www.mydomain.com/td_d_slug_5/
and many others, they shouldn’t be published…. they are not in the ste map..
please what is going on? If this is demo post content how is it being spidered? when it is not published?
NOTE: looks like I left some of the pages demo content published, that i can fix..but where are the other posts slugs coming from? I don’t see any demo post content?
thank you
Best bet is to remove all demo content — demo content is just intended to jumpstart development and not intended for live sites. Go through your “all posts” index from your WordPress admin panel, and jump to –> last page; then work backward to delete posts which are not actual live content.
Similarly, go to your WP admin and look at categories under > Posts > Categories, and remove any categories from the demo content you’re not using.
Only you can fix issues with content which is on your website. Any content which is not “hidden” at the per post level will show up in your sitemap, and be read by Google. Any category which has content attached to it, will also show up in your sitemap, and be indexed by Google.
Removing the content, then clearing all your caches, CDN cache, etc., then resubmitting your sitemap to Google via your Webmaster Tools account will help clean that up.
