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How to Remove an URL from Google Index Using Webmaster Tools?

How to Remove a Single URL from Search Results [SERPs]?

Many webmasters like to have some URLs removed in SERP’s but once it is indexed by Google, you need to follow some steps to make the URLs disappear in Search Engine Results. There are 3 important steps to to do before applying for Removal Request in Webmaster Tools.

1. Block the page from crawling via a Robots.txt File
2. Block the page from indexing via a NoIndex Meta tag
   

   Ex: <META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW”>

3. Indicate that the page no longer exists on your site by returning a 404 or 410 error status code.
4. After you have checked the above steps, Goto http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals and enter the URL that you need to remove, and select “Webmaster has already blocked the page” option. Google will then eventually remove the selected URL from SERPs.
   

   Ex: The URL Should be in a format shown below

   Correct Version

   http://www.techzene.org/delete-me.html

   Wrong Version

   http://www.techzene.org/search?q=delete+me

Note that you will not be able to remove the URL completely if the page hasn’t been blocked in any of the above 3 ways.

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Tags: Google Webmaster Tools