: Remove URLs of old site from Google index permanently Lets say I have a site called oldsite.com. Then I bought a new domain newsite.com. I transferred the content from oldsite.com to newsite.com.

@Kaufman445

This looks like migration, so you have to be patient in order for Google to acknowledge all the changes you made. Crawl your current website with tools like Screaming Frog or Website Auditor, to detect possible redirect chains and loops who potentially can confuse search engines. Use fetch and render in your Search Console on your old domain to see if Google is seeing those permanent redirects you previously created.

If you haven't verified your both domains in Search Console, do that and ask for Change of address support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en To be able to do so, you will have to be owner of both domains in Search Console.

Extra note:

Also, reach out to all webmasters where you have backlinks to update them with new domain name. After all, give Google some time to get new data (up to one month).

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@Correia994

If you want search engines to stop crawling your old website, just configure a robots.txt in your DocumentRoot of oldsite.com to let them know:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /


Additionally

you can then go to Google Webmaster Tools and delete them temporarily. That should be enough until the crawler visits you again. To permanently delete it from the web...you have to do exactly that --> no DNS-resolving = no requests on oldsite.com

Just to make sure:

All Rewrites from oldsite.com to newsite.com should include [R=permanent] as a parameter.

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