{"id":13811,"date":"2023-02-17T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.repscan.com\/blog\/how-to-delete-a-url-from-google-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T10:57:15","slug":"how-to-delete-a-url-from-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repscan.com\/en\/blog\/how-to-delete-a-url-from-google\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove a link from Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google is a huge company and has the most widely used search engine in the world. It is a multinational (Alphabet) that revolves around the company’s well-known search engine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is basically a web page that contains almost all the websites available on the Internet. Like a big library with all the content perfectly organized. Sometimes we may want to delete content that is not correct or not real, making use of the right to be forgotten on the Internet<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article we will show you how to remove a link from Google in a few steps. Let’s go for it! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Can we remove a website from Google for good? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When we find unwanted information online, one of the first questions we ask is how to remove a web page. Since Google is just a search engine that indexes content, the most effective way to remove a URL is to contact the webmaster of the site where it is published. Websites are legally required to provide contact details, so reaching out directly is always the first recommended step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there is no response, other methods must be considered, such as requesting Google to remove the content. However, even after a website deletes a URL, it may take a few days to disappear from search results since it remains in Google\u2019s database. For more details on removing online content, our blog offers guides on topics like deleting Google history and managing your digital footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steps to remove a URL from Google quickly and easily <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At this point we are going to explain the two procedures we have when deleting a URL<\/strong>. On the one hand, if we have control of the website and, on the other hand, if we are a user who has found content that we do not want to be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to remove a URL from my website from Google? <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This way of proceeding that we are going to explain to you is one that we will use if we have control of the web<\/strong> and it is also the one that will be used by the person to whom we ask for it, as a general rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must have access to the property in the Google Search Console tool<\/strong> and follow these steps: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Open the tool. <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Select the“URL Removal<\/strong> ” tab. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Click on the New Request <\/strong>button on the TEMPORARY REMOVALS<\/strong> tab. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Select REMOVE URL TEMPORARILY or DELETE URL STORED IN CACHE:\n
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    1. Temporarily remove the URL<\/strong> (URLs are blocked from Google Search results for six months). <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Delete the cached URL<\/strong> (Only the copy cached by Google is deleted and will reappear when it is crawled). <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. To complete the process enter the URL and click NEXT<\/strong>. Generally, it can take up to one day to process the application.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. You can delete a single page or all pages that have a defined prefix. In the case of entering repscan.com\/ you would delete:\n
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      1. repscan.com\/my-page <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. repscan.com\/mipagina <\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. repscan.com\/mipagina?1234 <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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        You must take into account that in this case, the removal is only temporary<\/strong>. For it to be permanent, the URL in Google must disappear from your website. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

        These are the most common ways to do it: <\/p>\n\n\n\n