: Remove indexed URLs from Google I have recently changed my website links and structure. Now I have about 12000 Not Found pages in my Webmaster Tools. I have changed the URL structure with the

@Angela700

Change the status code of the URLs you want no longer index to code 410. It means gone, and if you have google webmaster tools, it will tell you accordingly that the URLs are in fact 410's and after you deal with them there, google will never complains about them again and then unlist them.

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@Shanna517

To remove about 12000 links in our site from Google index is possible by adding every error links through google webmaster tools. However, it takes too long. Therefore, google has suggested us to handle this by two solutions:


Deny all bots access from folder which contains the error links in htacess.
Write the "Disallow" access from google bots in robots.txt


If you do one of the two, google bots will stop indexing your site which contains, deny (htaccess) and disallow. That means, Google stops storing your links and serve them in SERP.

You can check further details about this issue in: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/do-404s-hurt-my-site.html

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