Remove a site from Google completely
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I recently took down a website that I no longer wanted to use, it was new and never developed and no SEO was done for it, but it was fully indexed by Google.
I had that domain 301 redirected to my main site just so customers who type it in could get to my main site (the domain name of the website I took down is on printed ads such as fliers).
The site that I took down was a WordPress site, I think that's important to mention. Altho it was only a 5 page website, Google has 35+ things indexed such as "www.domain.com/?attachment_id=104"
Anyway, today I find a bunch of Crawl Errors in WebMaster Tools for my main site, lots of "Not Founds".
So Google is going to the main site but with the extension (such as "?attachment_id=104") from the old site which is either showing up as a 404 OR it's showing up as my main site's homepage but it's REALLY screwed up and the formatting is wacky.
So, instead of trying to redirect all these web pages (that had no backlinks anyway) I'd rather just clear them off of Google completely. I thought that is what would happen, but if it's still going to a screwed up version of my homepage, then it's not going to roll off of Google.
So how do a take a website off of Google completely?
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