I have a site that has been indexed with 115 pages, and 3/4 are with the old links.
The new project is under development, so the idea is to remove the current site from the search engines, and after the end of it, add it again.
I have already read the article Removing a website from google , but the tool used within the Webmasters platform has already been updated.
What I did so far was to delete all the content of the site, leaving just one robots.txt file as follows:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
I also just created a file called index.php , with a basic HTML structure:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="pt-br">
<head>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>