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301 Redirect and Removing urls?

by Xelaetaks
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Do the two contradict each other? Is it ok to 301 redirect a URL even if you submit it for removal for google?

For example if you remove a url from google index and cache but there could possibly be backlinks for it.


Thanks
#301 #redirect #removing #urls
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    I would never submit anything to google.

    301 it, then obliterate it. It will eventually take care
    of itself.

    Was there some reason to deindex it?

    Normally I leave every indexed url alone. If I change it,
    which I do sparingly, I do 301 it. But I leave a lot of orphan
    pages online and it brings me traffic.

    301 by itself will probably not deindex it. Virtually every url I
    have 301'd, I know most of the original urls are still indexed.

    Various logical reasons as to why the url stays indexed.

    So if you really, really need it deindexed, ask google, noindex it,
    or just take the url offline completely.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Xelaetaks
    Thanks. When I searh my site using It shows links from the old site.

    We switched from Yahoo to Shopify for web hosting in the past month so I tried getting rid of some old links. I also don't want google to view pages as duplicate content that's why I thought maybe removing the old urls might help the new ones to get on google easier.

    I'm kind of figuring out as I go but I redirected some pages with backlinks and tried removing some urls through webmaster tools that might come off as duplicate content to google.

    Our site lost rankings since the Penguin updates so I'm also trying to figure out ways to help google see the site.

    Now that I think about it though maybe it wont be viewed as duplicate content since the old pages aren't active anymore. Basically the old links now just lead to our website saying page not found but still taking the links to the website.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    This is exactly why 301 redirects were invented.

    Don't try to deindex old pages if there are still indexed (particularly if they have backlinks pointing to them).

    A 301 redirect will tell search engines that the old URLs should no longer be used and should be replaced with the URL/s that the redirects point to.
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    • Profile picture of the author ricklomas
      I've had no success using 301s but I did using some of the Link Research Tools, especially the Link Detox Genesis. The problem is, it's expensive, so I have tried to make it more affordable. See my signature.
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