GenoPro Support Forum

This has achieved some progress. The development control panel worked fine and I was able to set a password. It now shows a padlock sign against it, confirming that it is password protected.

However, When I go to Familytrees, and search for a family member, I'm able to find them all, click on the link from one of them, and go into the family tree without having to provide a password. Is the system using a cookie on my machine to identify that I'm the owner of a Family Tree which my machine is trying to access? 

I also note that when I go into Familytrees and use the Newest Reports or Updated Reports, it appears to be Hidden. Presumably the Password Protected setting also excludes it from the visible directories (although this isn't explicitly stated).

Regards

Alan

Eunice

Please do not be allarmed.   Your password is held for a period of time during the day, so you do not have to use it repeatedly.  Others will still need it, but also can enter the site and return without the use of the password during a given time after they have entered it once.  This is done by using Cookies stored on your computer, and is normal on modern software. I do not know the length of time this cookie lasts, but would be no more than 24 hours.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

However, the old publication is still sitting within Google's cache and there is no guarantee that the cache will ever be purged, ever after 90 days.  Having studied the Google Tools instructions for manual deleting cache pages from their database it seems that only the operater of the host site (Genopro) has enough access rights to insert the requisite command line(s) to cause these pages to be ignored during a Google search.

So Genopro Support, if you're reading this, can you assist at all please?

Cheers

Caladh Beag.

Thanks Poolzone.  I had been previously rummaging around on the Google Webmasters Tools page trying a few things out but can't get past the "Verify your site" stage (if that's what I need to do).  This is where my state of complete ignorance in such matters lets me down!  For example, I don't know whether I should be "uploading an HTML file" or "adding a metatag to my site's index file", neither of which I would know how to do anyway!  Or am I way off the mark here?

In your advice you give : “service=sitemaps&passive=true&nui=1&continue=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals&followup=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals<mpl=urlremoval&hl=en” What does this refer to please?

It's all a bit of a red mist I'm afraid!

I have now submitted the request in accordance with your helpful advice and await results.  With the weekend coming up it will probably take a bit longer for Google to action.

Many thanks and best wishes

Caladh Beag

Google may take up to 6 weeks to completely purge deleted pages from its index.