Dodgy directory on website

[QVA - Emma]

Hi I thought I might ask if I can pick your brains?

In the process of moving a site over to QVA's control from another provider and discovered that the site in question has been hijacked. There is a directory been added to the site which basically contains 500 or so pages of links to naughty stuff:eek:

The immediate step they have taken is to put a 403 forbidden up - which I know will not solve the issue entirely, they may have even deleted the directory - which is also not going to help remove the cached pages is it?

Now is the only process to get rid of these pages and get them removed from Googles index to:

1.create a robots noarchive tag for the directory
2.create a new page with the same URL FOR EACH PAGE indexed and add a meta tag with a noarchive
3.then submit each page to Google via webmaster tools to be removed from the index

OR

is there a quicker way to do this?

My main concern is that the sites that are inked from that site are going to bomb out of the SERPs and have a knock on effect down the line...

Really grateful for any suggestions.

Thanks

Emma

[ozbon]

The quicker way is to keep the directory name the same, but add it as a "block all" in your robots.txt at the root level.

So (effectively) you'd have www.site.com/robots.txt with a Disallow on /directory_name .

You can then go to Google's "remove links" section (http://www.google.co.uk/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92865), and get them to remove the folder from their index/cache as a whole, rather than worrying about all the individual pages etc.

[QVA - Emma]

Thanks - that would make sense. Most importantly I want to ensure all of the pages are removed from Google!:rolleyes:

[ozbon]

No worries - it's the quickest way I know of to get Google moving on removing cruddy links etc.