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Significantly long time for a website's inner-pages to get unindexed after being removed

by DBMEDIALLC
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I had a website online with about 15-20 inner-pages, each with a good amount of content. I took down the site, with all of the inner-pages being removed and now resulting in 404 errors. This was done purposefully as I plan to re-use the content once it's unindexed. However, all of these inner-pages have remained indexed and it has been 2 months since the website was taken down. I pinged all the pages and even ran them through an indexing program of mine (to get them crawled and then unindexed quicker.)

Any ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Google most likely hasn't tried to reindex the pages since you made them a 404s.

    Try this, in this order:
    1. 301 redirect the old URLs back to the main domain URL.
    2. Submit an xml sitemap to GWT that includes the old URLs.
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