Reply To: Google search of our domain lists connections contacts in the wrong area

11/23/2015 at 3:23 pm #356092
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Scott

My best guess is that those entries did exist on that page at the time Google indexed the page. I would assume since they are not present now, when Google reindexes the page, those incorrect links will be removed.

The entry is being shown, even though it is being excluded by the shortcode is because when an entry is queried directly it’ll be displayed. I’m thinking maybe I should add a filter which does a 404 when an entry is being requested that should be excluded based on the shortcode attributes. I added this to my issue tracker.

Back to the issue on hand, like I said, I do believe these results will be removed the next time Google indexes the page. I think the page can be requested to be indexed thru the Webmaster tools.

I’ll leave this issue open for now, let me know if these link do not get removed in the next couple weeks.

oh… just remembered, in Webmaster tools there is an option to remove links from the index… maybe you can remove the invalid links?