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On the results page when I Google "e-luminate", the 3rd and 4th link seems to point to specific directory deep within the folders which stores the images. How can I get rid of these 2 results from Google search results? How can I get Google to de-index it?

I checked on the server and the folders did not seem different from other folders but these 2 paths seems to get indexed by Google.

Thank you.

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First, sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account. This will allow you view statistics from Google about how they crawl your site, and lets you request removal of pages from the index (more on that later).

Next, set up a robots.txt file for your site. You do not need to block your entire site from Google to use robots.txt. All search engines follow robots.txt, so this will also prevent sites like Bing or Yahoo from indexing these pages.

To set this up, create robots.txt as a plain text file in the root directory of your site (e.g. http://www.example.com/robots.txt). The syntax is very simple: you specify the user-agent this should apply to, using * as a wild-card for all robots, and you specify where the robots shouldn't crawl. Note that you should not include any pages you want to be completely "secret", as this is a publicly visible file. The syntax for robots.txt is as follows:

User-agent: user agent name
Disallow: directory name
Disallow: another directory
Disallow: (etc)

If you want to block any search engines from indexing data in a subdirectory of your images directory, you might do something like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/foo/bar/
Disallow: /images/foo/baz/

You can even disallow just a specific file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/foo/bar/qux.jpg

Setting up robots.txt will prevent the specified directories and files from being indexed in the future. Over time, these pages will be removed from the search index, but it will not be immediate. To expedite this process, use your webmaster tools account to submit a request to remove a URL from the index. Click on the website account you want to remove the URL from, then open "Site configuration" on the left. Click on "Crawler access", then open the "Remove URL" tab. Click on "New removal request", and type in the URL you want to have removed. Then, hit enter. The page should ask you to confirm that you've already blocked the URL via robots.txt (which you've just done). Click OK, and it should submit the request. It will usually take them 1-3 days to process the request. You can check the status of the request by logging into your webmaster tools account at any time.

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Did you try searching first?

I searched for "Remove page from Google index" and got this page: Remove a page or site from Google's search results.

It says you should create a robots.txt file.

After that, you can go to Google Webmaster Tools to request speedy removal.

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Read about robots.txt files, and you'll understand, you simply put the robot.txt file in any folder you want completely removed from google, and it will after a few hours or days, should not be shown anymore. Robots.txt are generated by using the webmasters tools in your Google Account, try it!

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