How to delete all your old website data from the internet?

Question

I had my website on rohbits.com but for some reasons I had to delete it and recreate it with this URL wwww.rohbits.com/blog. My problem is that the old links are still visible on google search and when people click on those links, they land on a 404 Error page of the hosting company. I want to either delete all the previous data from the search engines or have an 404 Error page of my own so that I can tell my visitors where the actual website is.

I have already redirected all the traffic which comes to rohbits.com to www.rohbits.com/blog but when they click on the expired links, they get this error page.

One sample expired link is this one: http://rohbits.com/wordpress-tricks.

Answer 1

This is clearly not a case for deleting content, instead you should make sure the redirection works correctly. With redirecting you would not only keep your reputation, old links would also show the new content without error pages between.

I don't know what you already did to redirect your pages, but in most cases you can write a .htaccess file and place it in the root folder of your site.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rohbits.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.rohbits.com/blog/$1 [R=301,L]

This example is is not tested, but hopefully it should get you started. More information about redirecting you can find here. Of course the same pages should be available in the new blog directory.

Should you have changed the entire page structure, then don't use the $1, and make sure that a generic page is available at the given address.

Answer 2

To completely remove an entire page

On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want.

On the Dashboard, click Google Index on the left-hand menu.

Click Remove URLs.

Click New removal request.

Type the URL of the page you want removed from search results (not the Google search results URL or cached page URL), and then click Continue. How to find the right URL. The URL is case-sensitive—use exactly the same characters and capitalization that the site uses.

Click Yes, remove this page.

Click Submit Request.

To remove the cached version of a page

On the Webmaster Tools home page, click the site you want.

On the left-hand menu, click Google Index and then click Remove *URLs*.

Click New removal request.

Type the URL of the page you want removed, and then click Continue. The URL is case-sensitive—use exactly the same characters and capitalization that the site uses. How to find the right URL.

Select Remove cached version of this page.

Answer 3

Removing URL's from google's index is not a good idea.You should redirect your old URLS to the new URLS with HTTP 301 code else your search engine rankings will drop . Also make sure that you canonicalize the new URLS.