How to Remove a Webpage from Google? Google Search Console Link Removal Tutorial

When Naiba teaches everyone tobuild a foreign trade website, it„s mentioned that for a new website, it“s recommended to initially enable WordPress„s “Discourage search engines from indexing this site„ function, and only enable indexing after the website is completed and launched. If you don“t do this, it„s very likely that some test pages or already invalid pages will be indexed by Google before your website is ready, which is not very friendly forwebsite SEO.So, what if Google has already indexed some invalid pages? How to manually request removal from Google? The method is as follows: 1. Register a Google Search Console account.Google Search Console is an essential tool for Google SEO. You only need a Google account to log in, then verify your website. From Google Search Console, you can view various data about your website on Google, including removing website links. For the registration and usage methods of Google Search Console, please refer to the previously published article:Google Search Console Tutorial_How to Use Google Search Console 2. Submit a removal request in Google Search Console. 3. Enter the webpage link you need to remove. There are two options for submitting links: one is to temporarily remove the URL, and the other is to clear the cached URL.

• Temporarily remove URL: Prevents the corresponding URL from appearing in Google search results for about 6 months, and clears the current snippet and cached version (they will be regenerated after the next crawl). For permanent removal, please prevent the corresponding page from being indexed, or remove the page from the website.
• Clear cached URL: For the URL fragment entered below, keep its various variant forms in Google search results, only clear itself and the corresponding cached version until the system performs the next crawl.

How to Block Google from Crawling Specific Pages and Directories?

If you don't want some specific pages on your website or the content under certain directories to be crawled by Google or other search engines, how to operate? Here, Naiba introduces two methods: Method 1: Use an SEO Plugin. Almost every SEO plugin can set whether a page is allowed to be crawled. (Advanced WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math Usage Tutorial (Latest 2020)) Method 2: Use the robots.txt file to block. (What is robots.txt_Correct WordPress robots.txt Writing Methods and Generation Tools ）