Robots.txt not working

Question

Hi,

I have used robots.txt to restrict one of the folders in my site. The folder consists of the sites in under construction. Google has indexed all those sites which are in testing phase. So I used robots.txt. I first submitted the site and robots.txt is enabled. Now the status is success for the www.mysite.com/robots.txt. But the google is still listing those test links. Here is the code i have written for robots.txt...

User-agent: *
Disallow: /foldername/

Can anyone suggest me what the problem may be? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

See Requesting Removal of Content from our Index from the Google Webmaster Blog. You can expedite the removal process by submitting a removal request using the Google Webmaster Tools; otherwise, the pages will eventually be dropped out of the index when it is recrawled (i.e. updating a robots.txt file does not have an immediate change; the change takes place on subsequent crawls).