Bulk URL Removal in Webmaster Tools

[MichaelGregory]

One of Wordpress sites was hacked (for about 10 hours), and Google picked up 4000+ urls in the index. The site is fixed, but I'm stuck with all those urls in the index. All the urls of of the form:

walkerorthodontics.com/index.php?online-payday-cash-loan.htmloncewe

The only bulk removal option I could find was to remove an entire folder, but I can't do that, as it would only leave the homepage and kill off everything else. For some crazy reason, the removal tools doesn't support wildcards, so that obvious solution is right out.

So, how do it get rid of 4000 results? And no, waiting around for them to 404 out of the index isn't an option.

[BasKierkels]

Hi Michael,

Is a .htaccess an option? Mention the URL's by hand or with wildcards and give an 410-header code to make sure search engines know these pages are really gone.

These links might get you started:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33247849/using-htaccess-to-410-any-wildcard-url-that-contains-a-question-mark
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2014/11/http-410-error-pages-htaccess/

Hope that helps.

Bas

[Bigb06]

Hello,

Perhaps you could set up 404 for these pages, and then submit all these URLS via a sitemap in Google Search Console ?