Will google "forget" unlinked pages?

Posted by Mystere Man on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Mystere Man
Published on 2012-04-06T17:49:42Z Indexed on 2012/04/06 23:40 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 242

Filed under:

google

|

crawling

If i remove all links to a page, but do not delete the page from the site (nor block it from being requested), will google eventually "forget" about it when it reindexes the site? Assuming of course there are no other links to the page somewhere else externally.

Or will google continue to request the page and verify it in the index and keep it around so long as it returns a valid page?

Is this similar for Bing et al?

© Pro Webmasters or respective owner

Related posts about google

Removing malware of a particular kind

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I need to remove some malware from my computer. It is a trojan, and very annoying. It blocks access to Google and search sites. The trojan, with its name spelled out on each line cause it seems to block sites when i reference it in a url, is a r t (some text to mess it up) e m (more text i s First… >>> More
Trouble installing Matlab

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
So whenever I try to install Matlab, the first image appears, but then goes away and that's the end of it. Here's what I'm doing- user@host$> cd ~/mathworks_downloads user@host$> unzip matlab_R2012a_student_glnx86_installer.zip user@host$> ./install The Matlab logo and image pop up here… >>> More
Google chrome is always searching in local google domain instead of Google.com

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I have changed in the searched preferences to google.com but still when I do search from the address bar (instant or non-instant) it will go to google.co.kr. Even though I change "Google.com in English", still same... The only way is to open google.com website first, then do search in it. So the… >>> More
Google I/O 2010: Google TV Keynote - Introducing Google TV

as seen on Google Code - Search for 'Google Code'
Google I/O 2010: Google TV Keynote - Introducing Google TV Due to licensing and permissions issues, we are unable to show the full Google TV demonstration from the Day 2 keynote at Google I/O. Until we are able to get these permissions, please check out these clips. For Google I/O session videos… >>> More
Google I/O 2010: Google TV Keynote - Android Apps On Google TV

as seen on Google Code - Search for 'Google Code'
Google I/O 2010: Google TV Keynote - Android Apps On Google TV Due to licensing and permissions issues, we are unable to show the full Google TV demonstration from the Day 2 keynote at Google I/O. Until we are able to get these permissions, please check out these clips. For Google I/O session videos… >>> More

Related posts about crawling

https & ajax crawling

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
We made on our webpage https://www.1point618.com a transition to ssl and now we using nearly entirely ajax to load the content. Therefore all urls of existing pages have changed. We used the 301 redirect as recommended, also we have implemented google's specification that the webpage is still crawl-able… >>> More
Understanding Ajax crawling of search site

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
I have a couple of questions about Ajax crawling of site, which is kind of search engine itself. The base article explains the mechanism of making AJAX application crawlable. All this stuff with HTML-snapshots is clear and easy to implement, but I cant understand where will Google bot will get "the… >>> More
Need to sanity-check my .htaccess, especially Limit GET POST line for Google repellent

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
I need a sanity check on this .htaccess (from a WordPress site) I inherited from a 5 month+ old site. What's the symptom? Google + Bing crawl, but don't index any of the pages. Let me be clear: I'm not mad about "not ranking high." I think something is (accidentally) rejecting search engine indexing… >>> More
Ajax site not being crawled - have escaped fragment, what's wrong? [closed]

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
My site is anonkun.com. You can see that it's "ajax" and doesn't load much HTML. Here are some example pages: http://anonkun.com http://anonkun.com/?_escaped_fragment_= http://anonkun.com/stories/Dev-kun---FAQ/6ef881f8-cf48-4f87-a688-c585f23809c5 http://anonkun.com/stories/Dev-kun---FAQ/6ef881f8-cf48-4f87-a688-c585f23809c5… >>> More
How to interpret number of URL errors in Google webmaster tools

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
Recently Google has made some changes to Webmaster tools which are explained below: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/crawl-errors-next-generation.html One thing I could not find out is how to interpret the number of errors over time. At the end of February we've recently migrated… >>> More