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L Martin
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Don't block them from being crawled - this doesn't remove them from the index. It only stops Googlebot from looking at them.

Normally, the fastest way is to use the Search Console removal tool. For the numbers you're talking that doesn't sound possible as they have to be entered one-by-one.

The next fastest in my experience would be to create a sitemap that does an alt language mapping - Sitemaps are crawled and processed very soon after being submitted. If you tell Google each of the bad URIs are Chinese language (rel="alternaterel="alternate" hreflang="zh-Hans") and then put in real URIs as the "en" alternatives - this will replace them in English language engines. You can use the same URI multiple times.

Example:

<url>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/bad-chinese-page/</loc>
    <xhtml:link
                 rel="alternate"    
                 hreflang="zh-Hans"    
                 href="http://www.example.com/bad-chinese-page/"    
                 />
    <xhtml:link     
                 rel="alternate"    
                 hreflang="en"    
                 href="http://www.example.com/good-page/"    
                 />
</url>

Make sure each of these pages is returning a 410 error. This doesn't just tell Google the server can't find the content - it categorically says it's no longer there. They'll be dropped faster from the index.

Don't block them from being crawled - this doesn't remove them from the index. It only stops Googlebot from looking at them.

Normally, the fastest way is to use the Search Console removal tool. For the numbers you're talking that doesn't sound possible as they have to be entered one-by-one.

The next fastest in my experience would be to create a sitemap that does an alt language mapping - Sitemaps are crawled and processed very soon after being submitted. If you tell Google each of the bad URIs are Chinese language (rel="alternate hreflang="zh-Hans") and then put in real URIs as the "en" alternatives - this will replace them in English language engines. You can use the same URI multiple times.

Make sure each of these pages is returning a 410 error. This doesn't just tell Google the server can't find the content - it categorically says it's no longer there. They'll be dropped faster from the index.

Don't block them from being crawled - this doesn't remove them from the index. It only stops Googlebot from looking at them.

Normally, the fastest way is to use the Search Console removal tool. For the numbers you're talking that doesn't sound possible as they have to be entered one-by-one.

The next fastest in my experience would be to create a sitemap that does an alt language mapping - Sitemaps are crawled and processed very soon after being submitted. If you tell Google each of the bad URIs are Chinese language (rel="alternate" hreflang="zh-Hans") and then put in real URIs as the "en" alternatives - this will replace them in English language engines. You can use the same URI multiple times.

Example:

<url>
    <loc>http://www.example.com/bad-chinese-page/</loc>
    <xhtml:link
                 rel="alternate"    
                 hreflang="zh-Hans"    
                 href="http://www.example.com/bad-chinese-page/"    
                 />
    <xhtml:link     
                 rel="alternate"    
                 hreflang="en"    
                 href="http://www.example.com/good-page/"    
                 />
</url>

Make sure each of these pages is returning a 410 error. This doesn't just tell Google the server can't find the content - it categorically says it's no longer there. They'll be dropped faster from the index.

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L Martin
L Martin
  • 4k
  • 11
  • 25

Don't block them from being crawled - this doesn't remove them from the index. It only stops Googlebot from looking at them.

Normally, the fastest way is to use the Search Console removal tool. For the numbers you're talking that doesn't sound possible as they have to be entered one-by-one.

The next fastest in my experience would be to create a sitemap that does an alt language mapping - Sitemaps are crawled and processed very soon after being submitted. If you tell Google each of the bad URIs are Chinese language (rel="alternate hreflang="zh-Hans") and then put in real URIs as the "en" alternatives - this will replace them in English language engines. You can use the same URI multiple times.

Make sure each of these pages is returning a 410 error. This doesn't just tell Google the server can't find the content - it categorically says it's no longer there. They'll be dropped faster from the index.