I had found some instructions on the internet to remove a site from google, they referred to an old version of webmasters tools, that there was this functionality, but I can not find this option in the current version.
I'd like to know how to do it.
Note: I wanted to take a Google Sites website out of Google search results. There is no way to change the robots.txt
Depending on the current indexing, two steps are required to ensure that the site will not be indexed again and ensure that it will not appear in Google search results with error 404 :
To ensure that the site is permanently removed from Google search results, you need to create a file in the root of the domain named robots.txt to block access of crawler to that site:
Content of robots.txt :
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
These directives will indicate that nothing should be indexed when crawler passes through that site.
After blocking crawler access to the domain, you need to take the following steps to remove the domain in question from Google search results:
Sign in to your site Google Webmaster Tools
Choose the desired site from the list of existing sites
In the side menu, choose Google Index
Choose the Remove URLs sub-option
Once on the page, on the right side we have a button to create a new removal request:
After clicking the button you need to enter the desired address:
If the box asks what type of removal you want, you should choose to remove it from the cache and search results.
Inthisway,notonlyguarantorsthatblockedtheaccessofcrawlertothesite,butalsoguaranteethatthesiteinquestionwillstopappearinginthesearchresultsavoidingthepossibilityoferrors.
Someoftheinstructionscanbefoundatthis Google Webmaster Tools Help .
You can use a robots.txt with total denial:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Over time, your site will be removed from the Google crawler. More tips here: link
Google often suggests that deletions should be made through useful information to bots (robots that go online to index content).
I suggest four alternatives that can be used in combination:
Remove content from robots.txt and leave only:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Insert a meta tag in no <head > of the home / index / main page
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
Empty sitemap.xml
Remove the URL manually from the webmaster tools console:
(Note that this image was taken today from my webmaster tools. You mention that this option no longer exists, but it still exists. Just moved. )