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How to remove permanently my post from Google?

         

shobee

8:10 pm on Feb 22, 2014 (gmt 0)

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I want to remove some of my old posts from Google index. I have added rel=nofollow tag in all my posts then from web master tool i have used removed URL option. After two days my post was removed from Google then i have also removed from my website.

But after few days posts is re indexed in Google again which really surprised me even post is no longer active. I want to ask how can i removed this permanently and what is the right way to remove any posts?

Please help.here is Google index result of that post

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[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 9:11 pm (utc) on Feb 22, 2014]
[edit reason] removed reference to url on your own site [/edit]

aakk9999

6:02 pm on Feb 23, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Have you tried using meta robots noindex on the post you want to remove from Google?

aristotle

8:38 pm on Feb 23, 2014 (gmt 0)

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i have also removed from my website


One thing you can do is to use "fetch as googlebot" in webmaster tools to see what happens

aakk9999

9:58 pm on Feb 23, 2014 (gmt 0)

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i have also removed from my website

Thanks for pointing this out, aristotle, missed that!

Yes, fetch as Googlebot is a good start to see the response code returned. It should be 404 (or 410) and the post will drop from index soon anyway.

Gian04

5:04 am on Feb 24, 2014 (gmt 0)

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If you already removed the posts, just wait for a few weeks and it will be gone on Google SERPs

creeking

8:01 am on Feb 24, 2014 (gmt 0)

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put a blank page on the url with no index and no archive tags.

rahul999

11:22 am on Feb 24, 2014 (gmt 0)

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You should also check the sitemap of your site. If it still contains those removed URLs, you should delete the posts to make them disappear from the sitemap as well.

lucy24

4:36 pm on Feb 24, 2014 (gmt 0)

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then i have also removed from my website

Did you remove the physical file that holds the post? Or only the URL that led to it?

When you say "posts" it almost invariably means dynamically generated content. It's all too possible that there's more than one way to reach any given post, and what you're seeing now is simply an alternative way to reach the same material. You can't remove content in gwt; you can only remove URLs. Make sure that anything containing the unwanted posts is either physically gone, or has a <noindex> tag.

If something is on your sitemap, search engines will continue asking for it even if it's roboted-out. So make sure they can't physically get to it.

topr8

10:19 pm on Feb 24, 2014 (gmt 0)

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... and it might be too late, the page/s could easily have been scraped and archived by other bots and showing up on other websites.