Fastest way to clean pages from google index

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My website accidentally generated around 70,000 pages due to a code bug, which led to my index size increasing by more than twice.
I noticed this issue only when I visited 'Index Status' page webmasters. Now that I have fixed the bug, I want to sanitize my index
and remove these bad pages as quickly as possible.

I am currently returning 410 HTTP Status code for such pages. But even after 4-5 days I see only one 410 error in webmaster. I am
not sure how can I suggest google to re-crawl these pages and remove them from it's index.

I have not marked these pages as 'no-follow' and haven't blocked them through robots.txt yet, so that google can re-crawl these pages and
get the 410 HTTP status. Is this correct approach?

Need suggestions on what is the fastest way to remove these bad pages from my index.


site: http://www.pricecheckindia.com/


Pls. help !
#clean #fastest #google #index #pages
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    There's no point in trying to rush this along considering Google already knows about the pages. If you don't want certain pages indexed in Google SERPs do the NOINDEX per page. Those pages will be removed whenever Google crawls the pages again.
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    • Profile picture of the author mshajid
      Yukon is Right! if You NoIndex Your page next time when crawling it'll be get
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  • Profile picture of the author Dead Body
    Leave as it is or just create new sitemap with only genuine pages and submit it, but personally I highly recommend you to leave it on google indexer.
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  • Profile picture of the author jattmarketer
    In robots meta tag for every page which you don't want to get indexed put noindex, this will help you.
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