De-Indexing URLs from a specific Locale
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Is it possible to de-index a specific URL from showing up in a specific locale?
For example, if I want to de-index http://www.example.com/category/product1 from http://www.google.co.uk but not http://www.google.com, is that possible?
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Maybe you could try blocking all google.co.uk Ip's for that page.
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Hi! We're going through some of the older unanswered questions and seeing if people still have questions or if they've gone ahead and implemented something and have any lessons to share with us. Can you give an update, or mark your question as answered?
Thanks!
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As far as I know delisting open or more urls from Google webmaster tool is a general/global solution. Once done, it won't show on google on any extension.
The google DB isthe same, the domain extension is only use for ranking but is using the same database.
Hope I am right but I will be very interested in what other people are saying.
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