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Would 404, 410, or removal tool be the fastest way to deindex a URL

According to John Mueller from Google*, it might still come back and crawl the URLs when it has some free time. The only way I know of is to add the URL to robots.txt. Note the URL will not disappear ...
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Alternate page with proper canonical tag - htaccess rule

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L] There's nothing wrong with this rule. (Although it's not complete by itself. I assume there must be a RewriteCond directive that precedes this ...
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Google Spidering ajax Call URL as Stand Alone Content

Google only needs to see a sample of your page, not all variations of it. Creating a large number of slightly different lists of hotels is redundant, because Googlebot needs to see only a small ...
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Can a Banner Advertisement Make My Site be Marked as Spam?

SEO-in TOP provides a correct answer. However, I want to clarify a few things. You should use rel sponsored because it was introduced specifically to mark links that are advertisements or paid ...
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Can a Banner Advertisement Make My Site be Marked as Spam?

The probability of imposing sanctions for a single case of a large number of links from one site is minimal. If the site from which the link comes is not SPAM. Still, it's very doubtful... If your ...
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How did Google crawler view my password-protected pages?

If the pages were password protected, yet accessible to the crawlers, then you were probably serving different pages to the two. The timing tells you something. It happened when you confirmed that ...
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Webpage not indexed by google because of unknown host DNS error

Of your DNS records, only one of them doing you any good. Keep this one for sure: CNAME www.example.com your TXT DNS record is not relevant for directing visitors to your site. It looks like it is ...

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