: Google De-Index many pages at once? On one of our websites, Google has been indexing something it wasn't supposed to. We fixed the problem so it shouldn't happen anymore, but are interested
On one of our websites, Google has been indexing something it wasn't supposed to. We fixed the problem so it shouldn't happen anymore, but are interested in requesting that Google de-index these pages.
The problem is that there are about 10,000 pages. They all look similar to this:
www.mysite.com/file.php?o=34995 http://www.mysite.com/file.php?o=4566 www.mysite.com/file.php?o=223af http://www.mysite.com/file.php?o=6ga3h www.mysite.com/file.php?o=sfh45a etc...
All the pages are file.php with get parameters like above. Is it possible to put in a de-index request like: www.mysite.com/file.php* so that Google removes all 10,000 pages?
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You can't. The removal request tool is intended for emergencies, not clean-up. What you should be doing is informing the crawler(when it comes back around) that those URLs are no longer good. The engines will then do the clean-up themselves. This can be done by sending something like a 410 Gone response for the URLs if they really just plain shouldn't exist. If the problem is that the URLs have changed(eg. there were multiple ways of accessing those documents), you should look at their canonicalization suggestions. Eventually, the "true" URLs will be the only ones indexed and you can get rid of those 301s or whatever.
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