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Google has cached 1000s of PDFs from my website which shouldn't be public. I have updated my headers, but need to remove the existing Quick View cache. The Google webmaster tool allows me to remove them one by one - however, this clearly isn't practical given the quantity of files to be removed. Does anyone know how I can batch remove PDFs from Google cache? Ideally I'd like to a way to remove everything that matches "site:mysite.com *.pdf" |
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Seems like you've already figured out how to request removal of a single URL, which is obviously out of the question here. The second step in that process also lets you request removal of an entire directory, if the file URLs are predictable in that particular manner. (If you have thousands of PDFs, I'd hope they're at least somewhat organized.) If not, you're pretty much out of options, unfortunately. |
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If the files "shouldn't be public" then they should be on the public internet. You can remove the files from Google listings (via robots.txt and other methods), but if the files are still there then anyone can still download them. You should keep them behind some kind of authentication. For example, move the files out of the public web directory and serve them from a script that checks if the user is valid first. |
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