: Remove URL's - Site Removal instead of Web Page removal Can somebody please advise why www.website.com/?p=1 comes up with Site Removal rather than Webpage Removal when I submit the URL in Webmaster

@Harper822

Some URLS with parameters submitted to the removal tool and returning as site removals seems to be a current bug with the removal tool.

You can redirect it, amend the content, set a canonical tag or add to parameters in webmaster tools, but whatever you do will take time for Google to recrawl and work out the changes.
www.seroundtable.com/google-url-removal-tool-bug-18079.html

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@Jessie594

Because it's a root level query parameter URL (/?p=) and not a search engine friendly URL that Google WMT would be able to detect is a directory/page.

You'd be better off setting your permalinks on your website to show friendly URL's such as /page1 instead of /?p=1 and then you can specify Google not to index URL's with the query parameter ?p= in Google WMT.

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