How do you remove a page from Google search?

Amidala Level 1

January 17, 2015, 9:54 pm

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How do you remove a page from Google search?

Let's say that you have deleted some pages from your site, what would be the right way to stop those pages from appearing in Google search?

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webnesia

webnesia

Delete it or use webmaster tools.

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wonderclerks

wonderclerks

Yes sanfora is right.

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Beverly

Beverly

You should be able to specify in your Google webmaster tools which pages you want to remove from search listings. So long as those pages were actually part of your site (such as you have control over them), then Google will honor your request.

Here is a step by step guide from Google webmaster tools on how to remove a webpage from search.

To completely remove an entire page from Google search results:

On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want.
On the Dashboard, click Google Index on the left-hand menu.
Click Remove URLs.
Click New removal request.
Type the URL of the page you want removed from search results (not the Google search results URL or cached page URL), and then click Continue. The URL is case-sensitive—use exactly the same characters and capitalization that the site uses.
Click Yes, remove this page.
Click Submit Request.

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johnniewalk

johnniewalk

For that instead of deleting a page you can redirect the link from one page to another it is useful one two..

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Kashif4k

Kashif4k

@Beverly explained all the steps you need to perform in order to remove your deleted pages.

Another better option would be to redirect the removed pages URL either to your homepage or any other existing page that matches them.

This is done in order to avoid 404 errors and also benefit from the traffic coming to those pages.

Once Google is notified about the page being redirected, it will automatically update the links so no worries for you.

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Corzhens

Corzhens

This topic is interesting to me because my husband had that problem before in their office website. Old web pages that needed replacement were removed and gone forever. When someone would search for that page then it will appear as a broken link. The site is an e-magazine and one article constitutes its own web page. When removed, that’s when the problem arises.

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