Sage-Tips

How do I remove old pages from Google index?

Log in to your account. Choose “Removal” from the “Index” menu. Select the “Temporary Removals” tab. Hit the “New Request” button (keep it on “Remove this URL only”) and enter the URL of the page you wish to remove entirely from search results and Google’s cache.

How do I get rid of unwanted URLs?

The simplest way to delete URL suggestions is to start to type a URL, use the arrow keys to highlight the one you want to remove, and then press Shift and Delete.

How do I remove a URL from Google search results?

How to remove spam URLs

1. Sign in to your Google Search Console account.
2. Select the right property.
3. Click the Removals button in the right-column menu.
4. Click the NEW REQUEST button, and you’ll land on the TEMPORARILY REMOVE URL tab:
5. Choose Remove this URL only , enter the URL you want to remove and hit the Next button.

How do I Unindex a URL from Google?

To temporarily block a URL from Google Search, or update Google’s view when a page has changed:

1. The URL must be in a Search Console property that you own.
2. Open the Removals tool.
3. Select the Temporary Removals tab.
4. Click New Request.
5. Select Next to complete the process.

How do I delete URL history on Google Chrome?

To search for something specific, at the top right, tap Search .

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app .
2. At the top right, tap More. History. If your address bar is at the bottom, swipe up on the address bar. Tap History .
3. Find the entry that you want to delete.
4. To the right, tap Remove .

How do I fix Error 404 on Google?

How to Fix the 404 Not Found Error

1. Retry the web page by pressing F5, clicking/tapping the refresh/reload button, or trying the URL from the address bar again.
2. Check for errors in the URL.
3. Move up one directory level at a time in the URL until you find something.
4. Search for the page from a popular search engine.

Does Google crawl 404 pages?

When you have a 404, regardless of whether it is a default 404 or a custom 404, Google doesn’t crawl the content of the 404 once it sees the response is a server 404.

How do I make my website not index?

Add both a “noindex” and “nofollow” tag when you don’t want search engines to index a webpage in search, and you don’t want it to follow the links on that page.

How do I delete all URL history?

Clear your history

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app .
2. At the top right, tap More. History.
3. Tap Clear browsing data.
4. Next to ‘Time range’, select how much history you want to delete. To clear everything, tap All time.
5. Check ‘Browsing history’.
6. Tap Clear data.

How to remove content from Google search index?

If you own or control the content you want removed, and you want it removed from the Google search index, you can use the official Google URL Removal tool. That tool can be found here. In order to remove content from the index, however, you need to remove it from your website first.

How do I remove a Google URL from my website?

The Google URL Removal tool only works if you are the owner of the site, so you will not be able to use it. Your options are limited. If the content does not exist on the web, but still exists in the search index or in the cached index, you can use the Remove Outdated Content tool to submit it for removal.

Should you use Google’s indexing tool?

Google has a few guidelines for the use of the tool. Never use it to clean up broken pages, outdated URLs, or system pages. Google is smart enough to remove those from its index when it crawls them again, particularly if you’ve implemented the right HTTP codes.

How do I remove a page from the Google cache?

Google will remove it from the cache on their own after a while, or you can use a URL removal request with “remove from cache” checked. If you control the page but do not own it, like if your content is showing up in Google+ or Google Shopping, you can still delete the page or remove it from that Google property.