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Removing blog from Google

by cooler1
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I have some Blogger blogs which I want to move to a Wordpress site.

Yesterday, I removed the URLs of the blogger blog using the Remove URLs option in Google Webmaster Tools. Today, it says the URLs have been removed, but when I type part of the blog content in quotes in Google it still appears on the homepage and the archive page even though I removed those URLs using the Remove URLs tool.

In my experience, it takes up to 4 weeks or longer for a post to be no longer indexed in Google. Is there anyway to remove the content quicker or will I need to wait weeks before posting the content on the other site?
#blog #google #removing
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

    I have some Blogger blogs which I want to move to a Wordpress site.

    Yesterday, I removed the URLs of the blogger blog using the Remove URLs option in Google Webmaster Tools. Today, it says the URLs have been removed, but when I type part of the blog content in quotes in Google it still appears on the homepage and the archive page even though I removed those URLs using the Remove URLs tool.

    In my experience, it takes up to 4 weeks or longer for a post to be no longer indexed in Google. Is there anyway to remove the content quicker or will I need to wait weeks before posting the content on the other site?
    Noindex your blogger pages, & build external links from pages that are constantly getting reindexed to get Google to find the noindex. Or, noindex & wait for Google to try & reindex the pages. Either way you need to noindex the pages If you don't want the pages showing up in Google SERPs.
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    • Profile picture of the author cooler1
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Noindex your blogger pages, & build external links from pages that are constantly getting reindexed to get Google to find the noindex. Or, noindex & wait for Google to try & reindex the pages. Either way you need to noindex the pages.
      How do I noindex the blogger pages?

      Does each page need to be noindexed seperately or can the whole blog be noindexed?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

        How do I noindex the blogger pages?

        Does each page need to be noindexed seperately or can the whole blog be noindexed?
        https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/93710?hl=en

        Since it's blogger, just edit the 1 template file in HTML mode, from your blogger admin. page. That will add the noindex to every page on your blogger site.

        I think there's an admin. privacy setting that will also noindex the blogger template/site, but I would manually add the noindex tag myself to make sure it's being done (If I wanted my blog deindexed).
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        • Profile picture of the author cooler1
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/93710?hl=en

          Since it's blogger, just edit the 1 template file in HTML mode, from your blogger admin. page. That will add the noindex to every page on your blogger site.

          I think there's an admin. privacy setting that will also noindex the blogger template/site, but I would manually add the noindex tag myself to make sure it's being done (If I wanted my blog deindexed).
          Would pinging the blog help Google find the noindex or do links need to be built?
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by cooler1 View Post

            Would pinging the blog help Google find the noindex or do links need to be built?
            You could try pinging.

            If your site is hooked up to a WMT account you could noindex the pages, & then try & fetch as Googlebot the pages inside WMT, just make sure the noindex tag is on your pages first.

            View a few of the blogger pages & verify the noindex tag exist in the live web page HTML source code by doing a page search of the live HTML in your browser & searching for the keyword noindex.
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            • Profile picture of the author cooler1
              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              You could try pinging.

              If your site is hooked up to a WMT account you could noindex the pages, & then try & fetch as Googlebot the pages inside WMT, just make sure the noindex tag is on your pages first.

              View a few of the blogger pages & verify the noindex tag exist in the live web page HTML source code by doing a page search of the live HTML in your browser & searching for the keyword noindex.
              According to this, the page title and url continues to appear for the search queries until the robots revisit the site. Does this mean that noindexing the pages will prevent the robots visiting the site or do they do that regardless?

              https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/181175?hl=en
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  • Profile picture of the author joshmstanton
    Why did you remove them in the first place. It would have been easier to 301 redirect all your content to your Wordpress sites.

    Webmaster tools allows you to do that - https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/83105?hl=en

    I've done it in the past and seen my search results restored within a week after submitting a change of address through Webmaster Tools.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    For fastening the process, you can also 301 your blogger post to WordPress posts. For this purpose just look at this plugin is this is going to help anyways - httx://wordpress.org/plugins/blogger-301-redirect/
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by webdevpro View Post

      For fastening the process, you can also 301 your blogger post to WordPress posts. For this purpose just look at this plugin is this is going to help anyways - httx://wordpress.org/plugins/blogger-301-redirect/
      You can't 301 redirect a blogspot post to anything.

      You could do a meta redirect on blogspot but that has nothing to do with Google SERPs since the page source code has to load first in order for the meta redirect to work. Meta redirects are only for traffic.
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