Best way to quickly remove thin pages from the index?

[Websiteowner978172]

Trying to remove roughly ~20k URLS from the index that are thin on my site. Currently I've 410d the URLS and created a few different sitemaps for these URLS but at the current pace it'll still take a couple of months. Are there any quicker strategies to remove low quality URLS from the index that people are using?

 

[tranvanngoc442004]

Trying to remove roughly ~20k URLS from the index that are thin on my site. Currently I've 410d the URLS and created a few different sitemaps for these URLS but at the current pace it'll still take a couple of months. Are there any quicker strategies to remove low quality URLS from the index that people are using?

You're on the right track (410 is the strongest), but to speed things up: send a bulk URL deletion request in Google Search Console (Removals Tool), and simultaneously remove those URLs from your sitemap and internal links so Google doesn't crawl them again. You can temporarily block them with noindex or robots.txt to reduce crawling, but 410 + removals is still the fastest combination.