How to remove old style URLs from the Google Index completely and replace them with a new style?

Question

I had previously submitted my sitemap to Google. The structure of the URLs in it is https://example.com/username The username there is a URL slug generated based on the user's name. There is also another URL associated with each user https://example.com/username/branches. Google also indexed it.

I recently changed my whole website design and URL structure. The first URL https://example.com/username is same but https://example.com/username/andOtherUrlsAppendedtothis is new URL that we designed to replace the second.

Also I have almost 56,000 URLs that follows the old URL structure. How can I remove those URLs from Google index?

Answer 1

If you would like to replace:

https://example.com/username/branches with https://example.com/username/andOtherUrlsAppendedtothis

Then all you need to do is set a permanent 301 redirect. Considering you got a high volume of URLs, i would recommend you to handle using the code and make sure the HTTP response is 301.

Once you do this, you will see in few weeks most of the old URL will get changed to the new one.

Answer 2

if you would like to replace then simply use 301 Redirection. And after some week you will get the new result in google search Result.

if you don't want to do 301 redirection then add the no follow no index tag in that page.and submit the sitemap to google.

One other solution is that block that page through robots.txt and also temporary hide through google webmaster and after some time that page is removed by google.