Multilingual drupal 7

[jarizaro]

Hello,

I'm in a trouble with a drupal 7 installation.   It's multilingual.

The problem is Google indexed some pages like this:

example.com/es/node/100
example.com/fr/node/100
example.com/en/node/100

all of them, shows the same content, excepts menus, whose are in the current languages (depending of url: es, en, fr.. ).

The question...:

If a submit my sitemap, which not has those urls. Will google remove old example.com/xx/node/100 pages ? Or it'll retain them indexed.   Do i must remove these indexed urls via the google remove url submissions form?

Thanks.

[jarizaro]

Thanks Tim.  I followed your method for 1 site which is only in one language to deindex bad urls:

Disallow: /es/
Disallow: /pt/
..
...

following your advise and this thread http://drupal.org/node/78313 ,

and watching how works translation redirect for solve this in other sites with multiples languages.

Thanks.

[timhatton]

Do those pages still exist?  If they do, and there's a reason for them existing but you don't want them to appear in the index then

1. Block spider access to the pages with robots.txt

e.g.

User-agent: *

Disallow: /es/node/100

etc.

2. Use the Drupal metatag module to set up robots "noindex" meta tag on those pages if D7

Google say they'll remove pages from index which have noindex meta tag on them (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710&from=61050&rd=1)