How do you get a site unlisted?

Quote: Note: If you believe your request is urgent and cannot wait until the next time Google crawls your site, use our automatic URL removal system. In order for this automated process to work, the webmaster must first create and place a robots.txt file on the site in question.

Google will continue to exclude your site or directories from successive crawls if the robots.txt file exists in the web server root. If you do not have access to the root level of your server, you may place a robots.txt file at the same level as the files you want to remove. Doing this and submitting via the automatic URL removal system will cause a temporary, 180 day removal of your site from the Google index, you will be regardless of whether you remove the robots.txt file after processing your request. (Keeping the robots.txt file at the same level would require you to return to the URL removal system every 180 days to reissue the removal.)

Doing that isn't the same as the regular robots.txt thing, this is faster. I've done it before and it works. But I haven't done it with MSN or Yahoo before.

If you're wondering how I got there, it's on the addurl page http://www.google.com/addurl/. Then follow the click here link near the bottom.

EDIT: I can't remember how it works, if it give you a delistment for 6 months, or once the robots.txt file is gone, you are back in?

Thanks, I'm sure I tried that before and it wouldn't let me as I wasn't able to use that domain names email account. I'll try it again.

Google is a bit stupid sometimes, does read the robots file but doesn't always follow it

Google may have spidered your site before the robots.txt file was in place as well

Thanks but the robots file was put up in Oct 2005

Put the robots.txt file and disallow all crawlers.

It will take sometime to get your site unlisted as the SE's wil remove the pages from the cache.