Can I De-Index?
Hey guys,
I've taken over a website with around 1500 blog posts on it.
It's mostly utter rubbish (around 1200 of the posts are awful) but there are some really good articles that pre-google update were doing very well...
It's literally gone from around 100k organic sessions a month to 2k.
Luckily socials drives a LOT of traffic.
Anyway...
The 'utter rubbish' is obviously AI generated.
I want to basically start from scratch.
Delete the 1200 awful articles.
But I'm not a 'tech' guy.
So....
Can I simply just 'delete' the articles/blogs on Wordpress? Or do I need to somehow de-index them? or re-direct them once deleted?
I just want to pretty much start from scratch on this existing domain..
Use GSC >> Indexing >> Removals section to remove the pages from Google's cache even, after deleting those pages from the website.
Thank you for your help - so to confirm...
- I delete the posts from the back-end of my Wordpress Account
- I then manually remove them via GSC?
- What about re-directs? there's around 5000 backlinks to these pages
Given that there's going to be around 1200 of these pages I'd like to remove, is there any way I can do this quickly?
You mentioned, you want to do it from scratch. Redirection can bring both positive and negative things associated with the old content. You should take a decision here.
While removing URLs from the GSC it provides an option to choose remove all URLs which contain... This will be helpful.
