Remove specific URL's from index?

**jamestl2** · 08-18-2007, 02:17 PM

I have some dead links in the MSN index, but I can't seem to find a "URL Removal Request" (similar to what Google has. So how can I allow MSNbots to remove them.

I thought the links would have been removed over time, but it has been over two months, and it already indexed my newer "alive" pages.

**chrishirst** · 08-18-2007, 03:11 PM

make sure the pages send a 404 response when requested. Takes 5 or 6 months before they disappear.

**jamestl2** · 08-18-2007, 03:21 PM

Thanks for the timetable chrishirst, didn't think they would take that long.

And my dead pages do send a 404 response.

**chrishirst** · 08-19-2007, 06:34 AM

They stay in the index because the SEs keep indexing the URLs just in case it is a server error and the pages return at some point.