Removing indexed website

[geekwik]

I had a .in TLD version of my .com website floated for about 15 days, which was a duplicate copy of .com website.

I did not wish to use the .in further for SEO duplication reasons and had let the .in domain expire on 26th April. But still now when I search from my website the .in version also shows up in results and even in google webmaster it shows the the website with maximum (190) number of links to my .com website.

I am sure this is hurting the ranking of my .com website. How can the .in website be removed from googles indexing and search results. Given that is has expired also.

thanks

[geekwik]

How do I know if I was penalized by google?

in google search some links are from .com domain and some from .in domain.

I would like only .com domain to be indexed. you can check  geekwik.com and geekwik.in

thanks

[FedeEinhorn]

It will, yes, and you not only will get the new pages indexed faster but also the link juice the previous one had.

If you didn't receive any Google penalty, I would buy the domain, and set a 301 permanent redirect to the new one; or leaving the old one with the content and a rel=canonical tag to wherever the content is in the new domain (that's your decision).

But if you have the chance to get the domain again, for for it at least for 1 year and then, once you get all your new content indexed and the old one deindexed, you can forget about it, or leave it with the 301 redirect (which won't make you any harm, unless that previous domain was penalized).

If it was penalized, then don't. Again, do not get that domain back and point it to your new one, if you do that, all toxic links will be now pointing to your new domain.

[geekwik]

Thanks. When you say it will take time, that means how much time?

If I repurchase the domain (it is available) and put it on 404 then will the process be faster?

[FedeEinhorn]

If the domain expired and there's no content in it, then it will take time. You no longer control the domain, once Google crawls it again it will notice the lack of content and the domain actually expiring. The reason why Google may take some time to remove old content, is because you could be having an issue with the Website and therefore the content is not being served, and that is not a reason to remove/lose rankings.

Hope that helps.

[hanzoz]

I'm not sure whether is there a way to remove your website's index in google with a expired domain.

If the domain happens to be not expired then you can use the google webmaster tools > remove urls function to remove the index.