1. I am the lord – your Google – you shall have no other search engine better than me. Put Google first.
2. I the Lord, your Google am a jealous Google – you should only worship me and no one else. Worship my Webmaster and Analytics tools.
3. Use Google’s name with respect. Never diss Lord Google.
4. Remember the internet never sleeps. Every day is holy. Someone somewhere is on the internet; your son, daughter, manservant, maidservant, cattle or stranger within your gates – one of them will be online.
5. Write websites with respect? Think, “Would my parents be happy with my content?” Work hard upon your website which the Lord Google has given praise to.
6. Do not kill your website. Allow Googlebot to Crawl, htaccess to re-direct, spam to be deleted, download speeds to be low and Meta tags to be optimised.
7. Do not commit adultery by creating mirror sites. Stay faithful to your website; do not duplicate content, Meta information or infringe copyright law.
8. Do not steal other peoples content.
9. Do not lie in your content.
10. Do not spam.

A short time later there were problems with my server loading times, crawler access errors and timed out messages in the Google Webmaster tools section.  I had made no significant changes to the site and couldn’t, at first understand why this was because according to Google Analytics there were no more visitors than normal.

I then searched Google, (site:www.thesiteinquestion.com) and found that the number of indexed pages in Google had more or less trebled.  At first I thought this was great until I investigated further.
It turned out that about 2,000 indexed pages were from the forum.  It seems that the forum had been hacked with a load of spam content.

Webmaster Tools Remove URL from google index

I immediately wrote to Google in webmaster tools, URL = https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration) to tell them I was aware of the hacking and to ask that they not let it alter my existing good Search Engine Results Pages.  They replied saying my site had no problems.

I still have pages with the directory Forum that have unsuitable URL’s for my site.  I’ve deleted all the Forum files from my server via FTP and FileZilla so that when any of the URL’s are clicked 500 status error code appears.  Although the error occurs the indexed pages are still being ranked in Google.

I still want to delete these URL’s from the Google index altogether.  In fact all search engine.

To do this I have to add a row of code in my robots.txt code.

I already have:

User-agent: *

Allow: /

And I have to add the following line of code:-

Disallow: /forum/

Once saved and uploaded to my server it should take a few weeks for all of these URLs to be taken out of the index.  Happy Days!

I’ll know when this has happened because as soon as I do a site search, the number of indexed pages will drastically reduce.  However the indexed pages left will be good quality and informative.

Google Plus One Button - Google +1

Google have added the Plus One button.  It works in much the same way as the Facebook “like” button or the Twitter “Tweet” button but I think its going to have a far greater effect on how google rank search engine results.

I’m only speculating but I imagine that people who have many “plus ones” will be seen at the top of search results.

I’ve put the plus one button on one of my sites after some confusion over getting it html validated.  For the validated code see below:-

To be placed where you want the plus 1 button to appear:

<div id=”g_plus_one”></div>

To be placed just above the close body tag (</body>)