Removing url's from site
 

I have wanted to remove some content from my site. When I delete a gallery from my site, even if I put the url in my robot text file it comes up as a broken link when I check googles webmaster tools. They then say my site has problems? What am I doing wrong, should this be?

My robot text file looks like this
User-Agent: *
Disallow: http://www.exampleurl.com

????

You can use urls in the robots.txt just folders within your root. Seacrh at google for robots.txt just at the first result page you will find some very good explanations how to use the robots.txt

Thanks, I was reading that I have my robot.txt file the same place where my pages are for my site. Thats, the root right?

I read some postings a while back about placing subfolders in your image folder is that correct? I have all my images in the image folder,but now my sites a little bigger, its a mess. Its hard to have to scroll though all my images.

I just noticed I have forgotten to type some important info, I do not mean You can user I mean You can't use :) small mistake, but important one
Anyhow, yes, the robot.txt file must be in the root of your server, means there where usually the main and first index.html appears. No clue what do you mean reagrding the image folder, as images could be placed in any folder under the root folder....

O wow I didnt know that you could place images in any folder, I thought it had to be in the "images" folder like your home page must be titled "index" so I guess that anwsers my question.

Robot.txt Seems to be set up right. I read the article you were referring too just now. I can access it from http://www.myurl.com/robots.txt
I guess it just takes a few times for the report to go through on google webmaster tools. I have noticed just recently it will not report a new craw of my site until about 3-4 days after the fact.

If you remove a page & it's showing up as a legit 404 or 403, you can remove the link thru Google's URL Removal Tool & that will get it off the list of bad links/pages in their webmaster area (usually takes 2-4 weeks)

Thanks Greenie,
I am working on being more organized. wow 2-4 weeks seems like a long time.

Google does have a lot of links :D