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I have a few links on google that are domain.com/results.php?name=a&address=b

The results page/parameters has now been renamed and I need to remove the existing links on google etc.

I tried

User-agent: * Disallow: /results.php

in robots.txt and then on google webmaster added the url to be removed:

domain.com/results.php

it says it was removed successfully, however when I look at google an type domain.com - the existing urls with parameters are all still there.

What am I doing wrong? There are quite a few links so I need a way to deal with all of them at once instead of one by one.

Thanks

Kara
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You could put a page at results.php, and just get it to return a 301 redirect back your home page. 

<?php 
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); 
header("Location: http://www.Your-Website.com"); 
?>

As Google recrawls your site, the old pages will disappear. You may find this works faster than just having removed the old page.

nwaltham
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