> Oftentimes a forum will have many URLs that show the same content. Are
> you sure you used the removal tool to have them all removed? Also keep
> in mind that it might take a few days for the changes to take affect.

> Hope it helps - please post back if you have any questions.

> John

> I believe that I used the removal tool to remove all the associated
> URL's, but I will check.

> Can it take a few days for the changes to appear even after using the
> removal tool?  The exact URL's still appear one day later.  I thought
> that the removal tool was supposed to make the natural process
> quicker.  I used the tool because the URL's were still appearing in
> the search results one week after the content was actually deleted.

> Can something else be causing the results to appear for an extented
> time even though the URL's have absolutely been removed from the third-
> party site?  I'm reading in the help section about this sort of thing
> happening if other webpages are still linking to the deleted content
> or if the webmaster has meta tags or a robot.txt file.  I'm not
> exactly sure what this means, and I don't know if this is happening
> here or what I can do to find out and possibly resolve.

> Thanks again.  I really appreciate your help.

> On Dec 3, 8:13 am, JohnMu wrote:

> > Hi SKrasna and welcome to the groups!

> > Oftentimes a forum will have many URLs that show the same content. Are
> > you sure you used the removal tool to have them all removed? Also keep
> > in mind that it might take a few days for the changes to take affect.

> > Hope it helps - please post back if you have any questions.

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