How to inform Google to remove 404 Pages of my website?

[renukishor]

Hi,

I want to remove more than 6,000 pages of my website because of bad keywords, I am going to drop all these pages and making them ‘404’

I want to know how can I inform google that these pages does not exists so please don’t send me traffic from those bad keywords?

Also want to know can I use disavow tool of google website to exclude these 6,000 pages of my own website?

[Daniele_Carollo]

Have these a common structure?

I had the same issue some time ago, but was lucky enough to have them under fewer subdirectories, so that I could just work on them to actually inform Google about all the pages.

I managed to do that using a redirect 410 (url permanently gone) in my htaccess:

Redirect 410 /category/
Redirect 410 /category2/

and so on. So that every article in those categories went away.

After that, I also disallowed these categories in my robots.txt.

Hope it helps.

[Morten_Hjort]

On the other hand, 6.000 pages may take a little longer than 317 pages .. There must be a easier solution to this.

[Morten_Hjort]

What I did was:

Go to www.google.com/webmasters/tools, and make sure your domain is set up.

Go to Google Index - Remove URL's and copy paste in the URL, and tell Google the site has been removed completely. It will send in the information, and let Google approve the changes you've made.

One problem I was having, was that you have to do this manually, so I had to copy/paste in 317 pages, so if anyone on this forum has a better solution, please do let me know!

Hope this will solve your problem