I would addtry adding
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Googlebot
RewriteRule ^comment/reply/$ - [G,L]
RewriteRule ^comment/reply/(.*) - [G,L]
to .htaccess
or Apache config to inform spiders that the links should be removed. Just make sure to put it before the catch-all rule at the bottom of the standard Drupal .htaccess
. The problem is coming up with a list of spiders to add as [OR]
conditions to the RewriteCond
so that they get a 410 but Drupal handles normal requests.
Google Webmaster Tools has a URL removal tool, too, but I have never tried using it with patterns before.