Dec 21 2009

What’s The Fastest Way to Remove a Page from Google SERPs?

It may be not  a frequent situation but it may happen so that you need to remove a page from Google SERPs really fast. What’s the best way to do that?

Try this:

  • Exclude the page in Robots.txt + remove the pages using the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools.
  • Return 410 status code for the page (to show the page is gone for ever);

Don’t do this:

  • Don’t exclude the page in Robots.txt and add Noindex meta tag (the meta tag won’t be seen because Google bot will be disallowed to enter the page to see it).

See the further discussion here.

What are your thoughts?

7 Responses to “What’s The Fastest Way to Remove a Page from Google SERPs?”

  1. lohithseo (Lohith Amruthappa) says:
    December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm

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  2. Chris says:
    December 21, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Short and sweets

  3. Jocob says:
    December 23, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    how to set 410 status code in IIS server

  4. Steve Austin says:
    December 24, 2009 at 5:13 am

    Ya its really a nice way to shut the unwanted page.

  5. Chiropractic Care St Petersburg says:
    January 6, 2010 at 10:29 am

    Good way to remove pages from Google ranking. Thanks for good tip.

  6. crusher machine says:
    August 15, 2010 at 8:15 am

    Thank you! It’s good way to remove pages from google ranking!

  7. chinawholesalz says:
    July 18, 2011 at 7:41 am

    Now thats a promising suggestion… lemme try it guys