How to fix this issue?

[AlexanderWhite]

I redesign my website from Wix to HTML.

Now URLs changed to _

http://www.spinteedubai.com/#!how-it-works/c46c

To

http://www.spinteedubai.com/how-it-works.html

Same for all other pages. How I can fix this issue and both pages were also indexed in google.

[danatanseo]

Hi Alexander,

While there are some server-side technical things you can do to force a 404 error for a given URL, the best thing to do is remove the content in question from your server. At the very least this should achieve getting a 404 status code when you attempt to visit the URL that once housed the content. Ideally, if you can configure a custom 404 page that is more user-friendly, that's even better.

Now, depending on how your server is configured, there may be instances when a URL should produce a 404 error, but doesn't. I only bring this scenario up as a possibility because it's something I am currently dealing with on one of the sites I manage.

In any case, you may need to work closely with your server administrator or Web developer to achieve what you need. Most likely, it's just a matter of removing the old content from the server. Hope that helps!

Dana

[AlexanderWhite]

How can I add 404 error? What are the steps?

[danatanseo]

Hi Alexander,

It looks like you've implemented the canonical tags properly. It can, however, take Google a very, very long time (sometimes years) to remove old content. If you really want the old page/URL out of Google's index, the very best and quickest way to achieve that is to make sure that the old page produces a proper 404 status code then use GWT's Remove URL tool to request Google to remove it from their index. This still isn't immediate, but I've seen URLs removed in as little as a week using this method. Hope that helps!

Dana

[GPainter]

Hi Alexander,

You can either 301 the old page http://www.spinteedubai.com/#!how-it-works/c46c into the new page http://www.spinteedubai.com/how-it-works.html

or you can set up rel=canonical tag if its the same content and you want the keep the URL.

You would then have to either wait or use this to remove the URL - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals