: Remove hash URLs from Google search results after removing the hash I recently removed the hash from the URLs of my website built with AngularJS. Now I would like to remove the old URLs from

@Murphy175

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I recently removed the hash from the URLs of my website built with AngularJS. Now I would like to remove the old URLs from the Google search results to avoid duplicate content.

Problem is, when I try to do this via the Webmaster Tools' URL removal tool, the hash gets removed from my input and Google tries to remove my root URL from the index.

Also, when I add Disallow: /#/ to my robots.txt file, ALL requests are being blocked.

Should I just be patient and wait until Google recognizes the change or is there a way to remove these URLs?

PS: Calling the hash URLs will not lead to a 404, they are just forwarded to the non-hashed page automatically. But no hash URL is included in my sitemap nor linked anywhere on my page.

PPS: I found a similar question here, but it's not exactly the same as I didn't switch to hashbang URLs but instead I'm taking advantage of Googles relatively new ability to query AngularJS pages properly.

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