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How can I remove a URL on my website from the Google Index

From: SISTRIX Team Steve Paine 16.05.2022 Google-Index, Google-Bot and the Crawling Process What is the Google Everflux? Robots meta tag vs. robots.txt: what are the main differences? What is an HTTP referrer? Our web site is no longer in the index - have we lost our rankings? What is a User-Agent? What is Google Search Console and How To Get Started Web Crawlers: How do They Work? Changing Google Search through Entities What is the X-Robots-Tag? What is the Mobile First Index? Rich Snippets: What are the advantages? Can the Google-Bot fill out and crawl forms? Crawl Budget: What does this mean? These are the CTR's For Various Types of Google Search Result Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites Google SERP Features: Result Types in the Search Results Why does the amount of indexed pages fluctuate so much? How can I quickly get a new page into Google's index? Why does a blocked, noindex URL show up in the search results? Is a website with and without the www harmful? Shelf space optimisation on Google Find out how many pages of a domain are indexed by Google The consequences of negative user-signals on Google's rankings Why am I getting different values for indexed pages in the Google search, the GSC and SISTRIX? How can I remove a URL on my website from the Google Index Back to overviewTo remove a URL (web page) from your own website from Google’s search index, while leaving it active on your website, there are two options available. One uses the robots meta-tag, the other is a quick method using Google Search ConsoleContentsContentsOption #1 Use the robots meta-tag with NOINDEXCan I use WordPress to set NOINDEX on a URL Option #2 Use the Google Search ConsoleRemoving a URL from the index with the Google Search ConsoleRemoving a URL from the Bing index

Option #1 Use the robots meta-tag with NOINDEX

Add the meta-tag robots to the source code of the page which is not supposed to appear in the index and set the value to NOINDEX. By adding the following, the URL will be removed from the index: You have to add the meta-tag in the area of the specific page: line 6: robots meta element with the value NOINDEX in the source codeIf the page already has the robots meta-element with the value INDEX, you can simply replace it with NOINDEX. Done. Now you just have to wait until the desired URL is removed from the Google index. Depending on the site, this can take a few days. By using the meta-robots value NOINDEX, the URL will also be removed from the index of Microsoft’s search engine Bing ad other search engines that react to the noindex tag.

Can I use WordPress to set NOINDEX on a URL

The common WordPress website management system does not have a method for doing URL-level index control as standard but there are additional plugins that can be added that will give you this feature. Yoast is a common SEO plugin that can be used to add the NOINDEX code. Some themes may include a page template, tag or category that includes the NOINDEX code.

Option #2 Use the Google Search Console

Using a setting within the Google Search Console, you are able to have a URL removed from the Google index. This is a quick but temporary method. For the permanent removal of a URL, you need to add the NOINDEX feature as described above, or remove the page itself from your website, in addition to performing the temporary removal option. If you are not yet using the Google Search Console (GSC), you should activate your website for the free statistics and control. How to connect to GSC.

Removing a URL from the index with the Google Search Console

Log into the Google Search Console and select the desired website. In our example we selected asite.comClick on “Temporary Removals” tab at the top of the main boxClick on “NEW REQUEST” in the main box. (A red button) You will now be asked to type in the URL of the page that you want to be removed and confirm your choice by clicking on “next.” If you wish to remove a set of pages, you can enter a prefix.After removing the URL via Search Console you have to wait up to 24 hours until the desired URL is removed from Google’s index.

Removing a URL from the Bing index

The search engine Bing also provides their own webmaster tools, which you can use to have URLs removed from their index. Bing webmaster tools option of blocking a URL from being indexed (http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster)Video: Lily Ray on removing a URL from Google From: SISTRIX Team Steve Paine 16.05.2022 Google-Index, Google-Bot and the Crawling Process What is the Google Everflux? Robots meta tag vs. robots.txt: what are the main differences? What is an HTTP referrer? Our web site is no longer in the index - have we lost our rankings? What is a User-Agent? What is Google Search Console and How To Get Started Web Crawlers: How do They Work? Changing Google Search through Entities What is the X-Robots-Tag? What is the Mobile First Index? Rich Snippets: What are the advantages? Can the Google-Bot fill out and crawl forms? Crawl Budget: What does this mean? These are the CTR's For Various Types of Google Search Result Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites Google SERP Features: Result Types in the Search Results Why does the amount of indexed pages fluctuate so much? How can I quickly get a new page into Google's index? Why does a blocked, noindex URL show up in the search results? Is a website with and without the www harmful? Shelf space optimisation on Google Find out how many pages of a domain are indexed by Google The consequences of negative user-signals on Google's rankings Why am I getting different values for indexed pages in the Google search, the GSC and SISTRIX? How can I remove a URL on my website from the Google Index Back to overview German English Spanish Italian French