404 page is being indexed by search engines

[sethbergman]

Bug Report 🐛

What is the current behavior?

404 page is being indexed by search engines. The benefit dinner is also still there, which I believe already happened.

What is the expected behavior?

404 page is NOT being indexed by search engines

What steps did you take to get this behavior?

Open incognito tab (no cached results) and enter site in search box.

Additional Info

Requires access to Google Webmaster Tools in order to submit robots.txt and use the URL remover tool. Then ask Google to crawl, fetch and render, then submit.
See conversation here.

Screenshots

[mattbyrnes]

I'm picking up this issue and will submit a PR soon.

[apex-omontgomery]

But our 404 is awesome.

[mattbyrnes]

Hey William, I really like your organization and was wondering if you'd like some design and other help. I'm a web professional of nearly 20yrs and am enrolled in a coding boot camp to refresh my skills. Part of our weekly assignment is to submit open PRs. I'm a very experienced UI/UX designer, moderate front end developer and novice full stack developer. Regarding your GitHub issues, I see things that I can definitely help with and learn from. I think many of my classmates would feel the same way. That's way I'm reaching out. Here are links with info on myself and the boot camp. Me: http://mattbyrnes.com/ GA Tech Coding Boot Camp: https://bootcamp.pe.gatech.edu/coding/ Best, Matt

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[kylemh]

@mattbyrnes we could definitely use your help! Register on the website, join our Slack team, and then join the #oc-projects channel. I can put your skills to work!

[mattbyrnes]

Hey Kyle,

I believe I still need an invite to the operation-code Slack channel. Can you assist?

Best,
Matt

[kylemh]

Register via https://operationcode.org/join and you'll receive an invite via email within 24hrs

[mattbyrnes]

I did a few weeks ago but don't believe I got the followup invite. My account username is: mattjbyrnes@gmail

[kylemh]

Thanks for letting me know. I'll get this resolved ASAP.

[loganripplinger]

Google is still indexing the 404 page as described.

[aasifkhan7]

@sethbergman Hi. As far as I understand, "Requires access to Google Webmaster Tools in order to submit robots.txt and use the URL remover tool. Then ask Google to crawl, fetch and render, then submit." - doing this requires the access granted to the domain name owner.
Am I headed in the right direction? Thanks!

[sethbergman]

@aasifkhan7 that's exactly what you have to do. 👍

[kylemh]

@aasifkhan7 I wouldn't spend any time on this issue. See if there's anything you'd like to tackle in the new repo

[aasifkhan7]

@aasifkhan7 that's exactly what you have to do.

But I do not own the domain, hence I cannot have the access to Google Webmaster. So, how do I proceed with this? Thanks!

[aasifkhan7]

@aasifkhan7 I wouldn't spend any time on this issue. See if there's anything you'd like to tackle in the new repo

Hi. I was just curious about the access part. So. I'll look up issues in the new repo. Thanks.!