Are you looking for ways to remove URLs from Google? There are different ways to remove URLs from Google. But using the wrong way can negatively impact SEO. If you want to remove a URL from Google, then in this step by step guide, you will learn many different ways to do this.

1. How to Remove URL From Google Search
(4 Methods)
Written by ​AMAN SINGH
Are you looking for ways to remove URLs from Google?
There are different ways to remove URLs from Google. But using the
wrong way can negatively impact SEO.
If you want to remove a URL from Google, then in this step by step guide,
you will learn many different ways to do this.
How to Check If URLs are Indexed
You can check it easily. Just need to type ​site: yourdomain.com​ in
Google search engine. This will show search results and tell you if a page
is indexed.

2. You can also check indexation by using ​Index Coverage report​ in ​Google
Search Console​. The Coverage section reports you which pages of your
site are indexed in Google. It also tells you about errors and warnings that
prevent pages from being indexed.
In this section you will see some tabs:
● Error​ – The page is not indexed. After fixing the error, you can click
on the ​Validate fix​ option. Google will test URLs again.
● Valid ​– Shows your site’s index page in search engine.
● Valid with​ ​Warning ​– The page is indexed, but there is a problem
you need to fix.

3. ● Excluded ​– The page is not indexed. You may have excluded it by
noindex, or it may be a duplicate of a canonical page that we have
already indexed on your site.
URL Inspection Tool (for an individual URL) is another method to check
indexing. This tool tells you if a page is indexed and provide additional
information on how Google is treating the page.
Why Remove Link From Google
There may be several reasons for removing links from Google search
results. But the main reason may be low quality content.
Low-quality content affects your website SEO and ranking negatively. If you
have a bunch of pages that are indexed that shouldn’t be, your website will
lose a ranking position.

4. That’s why you should remove negative content from Google search that
impacts your website.
How to Remove URL From Google
There are two main ways to remove links from Google. But there are also
ways you can remove a URL that I will cover.
Removing a URL using Google Search Console
It is very easy to remove URLs from Google using Google Search
Console’s Removals tool. This tool enables you to block pages from
Google Search results.
Here are the steps to do so:
Login to your Google Search Console account then click on ​Removals​. In
this page, you will see
● Temporary Removal Requests
● Outdated Content
● SafeSearch Filtering
Temporary Removal Requests​ – There are two types of removal requests
available:
● Temporarily remove URL: Block URL from Google Search results for
about six months and clear current snippet and cached version.
● Clear cached URL: Keep URL in Google Search results. Just clear
current snippet and cached version.

5. Outdated Content​: There are two types of reports within in the outdated
content report:
● Outdated cache removal: The page still exists, but some content has
been removed.
● Outdated page removal: The page no longer exists, and has been
cleared from the Google index and search results.
SafeSearch Filtering​ – Displays a list of URLs on your site that were
reported as adult content.
Just click on the ​Temporary Removal Requests​ to temporarily remove the
links you want to remove. Then click on ​New Request​.
An input field will appear. Now you have to enter the URL and click on
Next.

6. This will confirm to you: Remove URL?… You just need to click on
SUBMIT REQUEST​.

7. Give it a day or two and then your URL will be removed from Google.
Using Noindex Robots Meta Tags
Noindex meta robots tag directive to search engines to remove a page from
the index.
If you are a WordPress user and using ​Yoast SEO plugin​, you can easily
prevent get Google to index your URLs.
Go to your post editor then navigate to Yoast SEO section and click on
Advanced option.

8. After that select ​‘No’​ from the drop-down option of​ “Allow search engines to
show this Post in search results?”​. You can screenshot below.

9. Now your URL will be removed from Google search. But it will take some
time.
Delete the URL
If the URL you want to remove from Google, then you can simply delete it
from your site.
When the URL show either a 404 (not found) or 410 (gone) status code,
then the page will be removed from the index after the page is re-crawled.
The page you want to remove may have traffic or inbound links that provide
SEO value then it may be better to use a 301 redirect to a similar page.
Create Canonical Tags
This is mostly to prevent duplicate content. Canonical tag to tell search
engines that there is another primary page or preferred URL to index.
If pages are duplicate or very similar, you should set a Canonical tag
(rel=”canonical). When pages are too different, canonical may be ignored.
How to Remove an Entire Website From
Google
If your site is on WordPress and want to remove an entire website from
Google then go to ​WordPress dashboard >> Settings >> Reading​. And
check the box that says “​Discourage search engines from indexing this
site​”.

10. You can also block your site from being crawled by search engine bots by
adding this to your ​robots.txt file​.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
How to Remove URLs From Sites You Don’t
Own
If you own the content and someone has copied your content. You can use
Google’s ​Copyright Removal tool​ to do. It requests the removal of any
copyrighted material.
Conclusion
As you can see several options to remove a URL from Google’s index.
But if you want to remove the URLs permanently, from Google search then
the noindex tag is the best way to do it.
If you have any questions, let me know in the comment box. And now it’s
your turn! Find this article helpful? Don’t forget to share!
FURTHER READING
● How to Get Google to Instantly Index Your Website
● How to Create Backlinks (11 New Strategies)

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● How to Add Nofollow Link in WordPress
● Dofollow and Nofollow Links in SEO