How Can I Remove a Link from Google Search (Specific URL or Webpage)

I’ll show you how you can remove a link from Google Search Results.

I’ll first show you a way to do it in the Google Search Console, but it only removes it for 90 days so it’s a quick but temporary fix.

After, I’ll take you step-by-step, how to make it permanent with meta tags or redirects and remove any URL from Google search and ask Google to stop indexing the webpage.

This will work for WordPress & HTML sites.
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Remove a page from Google search results in summary:

1. Google Search Console
If you have a domain property in search console, you can’t remove the page like this. You can either set up a URL in search console or follow the other 2 steps below.

If you have a URL domain then you can easily remove the URL from Google’s index, but it only removes it for about 90 days, if you don’t delete permanently it will reappear.

2. Meta tags
- In WordPress, use a SEO plugin like Yoast to hide the page from search engines.
- In HTML, add meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" code to hide it.
Grab the meta tag code (sorry YouTube doesn’t allow the code in comment): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en

3. Redirect
- In WordPress, this can be achieved with redirection plugin in WordPress or updating .htaccess file
- If you have relevant content then use 301 redirect.
- If not then use 410 (Gone) - 404 won’t work as Google will just try to reindex it later. 410 will tell it that the page has been removed on purpose.
- Write code in .htaccess file that will redirect your traffic.
Code for 410 redirects:

RewriteEngine On
# gone is same as 410 and place your url at instead of placeholder
RedirectMatch gone /your-url.*
# if there is error 410 then redirect to home page - this could be any other page for example /about/ page. The page just has to exist.
ErrorDocument 410 /

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