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Depends on how many levels down the page is, what it's page rank is, who is linking to that page - I've seen some pages get really stagnant. Maybe in your case some of the issue is with the robots.txt and htaccess - it could be that a combination of algo flags and new algos just put some of your pages into a part of an index that just never gets updated. I still think if you remove the block from robots.txt, and put in a tiny link in your footer to those pages, and put in the php meta routine to set the noarchive, then you'll get rid of them for good.

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Try putting this in your htaccess:



You can also add ErrorDocument 410 /410.php if you want, just make a copy of the 404.php and change the message.

I think that htaccess will match up with exactly what you need to accomplish.

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Hey, have you checked your htaccess to make sure it's doing what you think it's doing? I just put in http://lior.weissbrod.com at http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/http-server-response/code-checker.php and got back a normal response 200. But then I tired http://www.weissbrod.com/lior, and it gave back a response 302! With that response, Google will continue to assume that your old path is the correct one.

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www.antisource.com

Oops, that was because I shouldn't have used

The correct way is

(the difference is in the last line)

Thanks!

If you want to re-test it, notice that it should be 410, not 301 (Dirk suggested it's even stronger).

Also, like I said, Google only has one such WWW link anyway. The problem is with the endless http://lior.weissbrod.com/lior/ links.

P.S.
Did you know this topic is on Google already? :-)
Dirk could probably pass such a fix in no time...

When you paste your htaccess onto here, make sure to wrap it in CODE tags - your escaping backslashes are getting stripped (assuming you're using them).

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www.antisource.com

Fixed all of them, thanks!
But the same goes for your quotes of my .htaccess.