Remove Web Pages from Live Search Index
Microsoft Live Search team is working very hard to add more and more new features to Live search for end users as well as for webmaster and web site owners. Live Search has added one more feature that will help webmasters to have a greater control over their web pages how Live Search will index them. To remove web page from Live Search index Microsoft Live Search team says webmaster can add a meta tag exclusion within the <head> tag at the top of your HTML page for example:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/>
Once the page is recrawled, the page will no longer be linked to in the SERP.
If you need URLs removed from our index, please take the following steps:
1. Ensure the pages that need to be removed are unavailable to the crawler. To remove a URL at the next crawl ensure that the page displays a 404 file not found error.
2. Launch the Live Search Support form. Go to the form and begin filling it out.
3. Identify from where in Live Search you want the URL removed. To quickly remove a URL, select Content Removal Request from the form’s drop-down list. Select one of these resulting options for removal:
- Remove my content. If you want the URL removed from the SERP, select this option. This is a permanent removal. Should you want this URL indexed again in the future, you will need to fill out a Content Inclusion Request from the same support form.
- Cache removal. If you just want the cached page removed, use this option. Note that this will not remove the URL from our index.
4. Complete the rest of the form. Submit the URL or URLs to be removed, the query used to find the URL, complete the rest of the form, and then click Submit.
Source: Removing content from the Live Search index
