How to remove the specific link from Google Listed Index?
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I am working on SEO for an e-commerce client. When I search for brand name in the Google it displays the top link with tabular index of categories. Whereas I want to remove the category called Coffee from the tabular index because it redirecting to the Home page which is not relevant.
For your ref. attached is the screenshot.
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Tom,
It is using the index page URL. Hence, I am stuck in removing using webmaster tool. Do you have any suggestion on this scenario?
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Hi Hitesh
Try this procedure from ShoutMeLoud. Their suggested procedure:
- Login to your Google Search Console tool dashboard
- Click on Search Appearance > Sitelinks
- Add link to page which you want to remove from sitelink index
- Click on Demote and your sitelink will be removed in some time.
You may also want to check internal links and sitemap to make sure you don't have references to that category section if it is in fact gone; that will provide a bad user experience. That's a discussion for you and your team though.
Also, run through your backlinks and update those pointing to Coffee to point to the most relevant category in place now.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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Dear Tom,
We never targeted the Coffee URL. It has its category under the Menu. But, on the Index it suddenly started appearing with the URL targeting to the Home Page. Which does not make understand without having any relevance with the "Coffee" on home how did it go up.
Now, the challenge is how to remove from the tabular index of Google.
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Hi Hitesh
Just to double check - did the Coffee page use to be a separate URL that is now redirecting the homepage?
If so, you could demote the old coffee page URL using the above tool and that should do the trick. However, if the page has been redirected, the URL should automatically be removed from the Sitelinks eventually, once Google has caught up and processed it fully.
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Alick300,
Thank you for the prompt response. But, the problem where is that "Coffee" link is targeting to the Home Page URL. If I remove that using said procedure, website index page would stop being visible in index.
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Hi Hitesh,
You can remove by demoting that links from Google search console (Google webmaster tools) by steps mentioned in below links.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en
I'm also including a video link on this @ http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-to-block-unwanted-sitelinks-in-google.html
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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