Someone told me if I ask google to remove old pages from my website
google will remove my entire site from their search engine. Is this
true? I ask cause 12 of my old pages no longer exsist and google still
has them indexed. So, I figured I'd send in those old URL pages to
google to let them know those old pages need to be removed. Thank you
for any help you can provide.

if there are no links to those pages, then they will soon get removed
as googe next crawls the site.

It depends how you ask them to do it.

But think first. Is there any chance that you have inbound links to
any of them? If you do, you may want to put up a redirector page under
the old name to direct casual browsers and search engine spiders to
your new page. Add a robots META tag to say noindex,follow.

If not, just put up a robots.txt file for the old names and take them
out of your sitemap. Beware that it can be up to six months before all
trace of them disappears. Google seems to treat the first 404 event as
an anomally and hangs on to its cached version until the next time it
spiders. And then you have to wait for the update "run".

The easiest way is to use the Google Tool located here:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html#outdated

Select the " automatic URL removal system" button

You must first register your site (so that Google knows you have
control and are authorized to perform these removal functions). Then
select "Remove an outdated link" and enter your old URLs that no longer
exist. It takes about 3 - 5 days and Google will then notify you when
your pages have been removed.

I've used this a lot without any problems. Read all of the
instructions thoroughly.

Hi pgaz,

So, if I use this remove an outdated link option, it will not remove my
main page or any other pages on mysite that do work? It will just
remove those pages that no longer work?

Examples:

main page: http://www.domain.com (up and running)
other page: http://www.domain.com/news.html(up and running)
old page: http://www.domain.com/links.html(404 error)

you use the removal option to remove the page
http://www.domain.com/links.html

ONLY that old page would be removed and NOT domain.com and
domain.com/news.html, correct?

Thanks

Hello,

Google has a page removal section in the Google's Help Center. You will
find a link which you can submit your dead links for Google to remove
(automatic URL removal system).

http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

Google will in time remove those dead links, but I have seen that take
up to one year.

The answer to your question it a big fat NO!

Robsportsfanatic,
You are correct - only http://www.domain.com/links.html gets
removed and not any of your other pages. One thing to remember is that
Google first checks for a 404 (Page Not Found) before it deletes the
page. If a page still exists, Google does not remove it.