Ever wanted to wipe out your competitors to gain better ranking positions? Well now with the help from Google you can actually do this thanks to a flaw in Google Webmasters Tools. Yesterday some webmaster started to report that they could not only remove their own urls from the Google index but actually remove urls that they did not own. There seems to be a major flaw in the Google Webmasters remove url tool.
I have not tried to utilise the flaw but it seems many have. It also it not too difficult to impletement as you can see below.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals-request?hl=en&siteUrl=#
There is though documented evidence online that indeed the flaw can be exploited and you can actually remove any url of your choice. David Naylor, a highly respected UK SEO expert documented the flaw on his blog. You can read more about the flaw in his recent post on the matter. Google Webmasters Flaw Allows You To Remove Any URL From Their Index. Google Page Rank Fix Just a couple of weeks after the first page rank update for 6 months, Google issued another page rank export which resulted in many webmasters reported page rank of their sites rolling back to previous levels. I can report this was not a roll back but an adjustment. Google recently issued a statement….. Recently Twitter has been making various changes to its robots.txt file and HTTP status codes. These changes temporarily resulted in unusual url canonicalization for Twitter by our algorithms. The canonical urls have started to settle down, and we’ve pushed a refresh of the toolbar PageRank data that reflects that. Twitter continues to have high PageRank in Google’s index, and this variation was not a penalty.
