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How to remove my former sites off search engines?

         

abrodski

2:59 am on Feb 4, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Hello!

I have this little problem. A few years ago, I had couple of sites, then I closed them. But back then the search engines added those sites of mine into their databases. It's Google and Chinese Baidu. And now their bots query my DNS server for non-existent sites. The complication is this... I've got a working website today. Let's call it site.com And those non-existent sites are like that: forum.site.com (my site's subdomains).

The traffic is not significant. But why to have it on a daily basis? As far as I see it, there are two ways to possibly deal with it:
a) An administrative way, ie., to contact somehow the search engines and ask them nicely to remove those sites off their db's;
b.) A technical way, ie., to deal with it myself with some BIND9 configuration.
But I just don't know how to approach the issue, frankly.

tangor

3:05 am on Feb 4, 2016 (gmt 0)

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No search engine (any of them!) ever forget a url they met. Worse, some have cache pages stored on their servers, so they will check to see if those still exist, and even if 404 will keep the cache page. Archive.Org is one of the worst, though they will comply with a take down request.

These will only appear as 404s in your logs and will not represent anything to worry about, either for ranking or bandwidth as these are small requests.

If you are using the same DNS with a different domain name, not sure what to do about that, other than let the 404s flow.

abrodski

3:38 am on Feb 4, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Thanks for your reply!

What did you mean by "same DNS"? It's a totally different DNS server. Different IP etc. Those sites were located on some hosting. Right now I'm hosting my own site.

tangor

3:50 am on Feb 4, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Then no worries! I have a few clients who own specific IP addressing which they have changed content/domain over the years, which we all can surmise might be a PITA galore. :)