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Remove from Google Index by other methods

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Removing a page from Google Index by "Remove URLs" of Google Webmaster will remove the Page from Google Search / Cache only for 90 days unless the webpage stops existing(returns 404 - Not found error). So if you permanently want to remove a page from Google Index, and not get added again, Google provides 2 more options :

1) "noindex" meta Tags
You can inform Google about removing and preventing a webpage from getting indexed, by using a meta tag on the webpage. So you just need to add the below meta tag to the "head" section of the webpage, you do not want search bots to Index.

While Google respects the "noindex" meta tags the same cannot be said about all the search bots and some search bots may still index the page and show in their searches. You can check our website page source of www.jahajee.com/termsofservice.php for better understanding.

2) robots.txt
You can add the URL of the page not to index, at the robots.txt by adding the below code. Again, Google respects the robots.txt and understands that you disallow "termsofservice.php" to be indexed, but some robots may still index it and show in their searches.
Remember that robots.txt for your website is publicly available to all internet Users and do not include sensitive webpages under "Disallow" in it.

The best way to prevent search engines from indexing sensitive webpage is by not linking it from anywhere on your website. Search bot always search and index the webpages by following linked contents, so if you do not link a particular sensitive page from anywhere, then only you know of its URL. For example I use a webpage to monitor the data of the users which can be found at .......Damn ! I can't tell you that ;-)