How to remove a website from Google easily

[shukla7789]

We get a lot of queries asking how to remove a website from Google . So I thought the most effective way to answer this query was to talk about it in a post.

First of all, I want to differentiate between two situations. You will see which one best fits what you are looking for.

You want a website to disappear completely from the Internet.
You don't want a website to appear in Google searches, but you do want it to continue to exist. This can happen if the website in question is not yet presentable and you want to wait a bit before putting it on the air.
Now I'm going to explain what you can do in each case.

Delete a web page from Google

In this case you want the page to disappear student database a trace, as if it had never existed. In this case I recommend that you follow the following steps:

If you want to delete just one page from your website, go to the CMS and delete the content manually. In Wordpress it is as easy as logging in, going to the page you want to delete and sending it to the trash.

move to trash

Then, for added security, empty the trash.

If you want to delete the entire website, do it from your hosting (or if you don't know how to do it, ask your hosting company to do it for you).

In any case, it's not all over yet. Even though you've just deleted your page, you can see that Google is still showing it in search results. In fact, it can take a while for it to disappear completely. If you want to speed up the process, you can use the Google Search Console's Remove Outdated Content tool . This is a quick way to notify the search engine that the content no longer exists.

How to hide a web page from Google

If you want a page to remain hidden from prying eyes, all you have to do is ask Google not to index it.

For this you have several options:

Use the Google Search Console URL removal tool , which temporarily removes the URL from search results.
Use robots.txt to prevent Googlebot from accessing the page. Copy these lines into the file:
User-Agent: *

Disallow: /address

Where address is the location of the resource you want to prohibit access to. For example:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /web-page

I hope I have helped you. As always, I am willing to answer all your questions in the comments.

I WISH you a good day,