How to De-index an old website ?

dzuster

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Nov 15, 2008

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• Oct 6, 2014

• #21

de-indexed old website? why would you do that anyway? well you can delete your site on your cpanel.

 

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hruby

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May 16, 2014

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• Oct 6, 2014

• #22

lock it out of the server (or delete it) and than deindex it through gwt or just wait for it to deindex naturally

 

Wendetta

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May 6, 2010

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• Oct 18, 2014

• #23

First deleted site from cPanel, then waited few days and then checked with Copyscape to see if I can find my old text somewhere, and then re-added the text with few spins.

 

Capo Dei Capi

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• Jan 1, 2015

• #24

BassTrackerBoats said:

I do this when I need to deindex:

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Will this method work with a free site someone is using? like personalwebsite.freesiteprovider.com I'm going to switch to a paid site once I get a domain+hosting bought anonymously and don't want traffic to keep going to the old site.

 

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Matt707

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• Jan 1, 2015

• #25

Look up how to edit your robots.txt to the best of your ability then delete the website completely from your web host and change the name servers.

 

Capo Dei Capi

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• Mar 11, 2015

• #26

Even without the website offline, I've found it takes a few weeks to have pages deindex. I've had a site with ~1600 pages indexed that I deleted them all on Feb 25th, and now 2 weeks later I'm down to ~90 pages indexed.

 

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accelerator_dd

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May 14, 2010

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• Mar 11, 2015

• #27

IF you dont have one, create a file called "Robots.txt" in your root directory. In it, add:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

 

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papercut

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Feb 22, 2015

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• Mar 18, 2015

• #28

Good luck - it takes a while as what others have said, what you need to do is completely make your site inaccessible and request a de index from Google's pages.

 

TeKn1qu3z

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Jul 26, 2012

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• Mar 18, 2015

• #29

Delete the content on first page and block Google crawling other urls. This way you cna have your content on other site.

In the mean time Google will deindex all the old content

 

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papercut

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Feb 22, 2015

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• Mar 18, 2015

• #30

TeKn1qu3z said:

Delete the content on first page and block Google crawling other urls. This way you cna have your content on other site.

In the mean time Google will deindex all the old content

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A few months on, that is.