# Remove your content from Google

Wednesday, January 09, 2008


Confused about the best uses of robots.txt, `nofollow`, URL removal tool? Wondering
how to keep some of your pages off the web? Our webspam lead, Matt Cutts, talks about the best
ways to stop Google from crawling your content, and how to remove content from the Google index
once we've crawled it.
[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM2VDkXPt0I)


We love your feedback.
[Tell us what you think about this video](https://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/browse_thread/thread/b316d9c11d9689ce#81589730d793979e)
in our Webmaster Help Group.


**Note from Matt:** Yes, robots.txt has been around since at least 1996, not 2006. It's hard
for me to talk for 12-13 minutes without any miscues.:)


For more information, please see our
[Help Center articles on removing content](https://support.google.com/websearch/troubleshooter/3111061).

Posted by Rïona MacNamara, Webmaster Tools Team