Old Sub domain removal and deletion of content

[pks333]

There are two questions here. I have waited for over 2-3 weeks now and they are still not resolved till now.

• An old sub-domain is still indexed on Google (blog.nirogam.com) of which all pages have been redirected or 404'd to main domain. There is no webmasters, no authority of this old sub-domain. Hosting of the same might be there. (this has been deleted and does not exist - we own main domain only)

How do I de-index and remove them for good? _(Around ~1,000 pages)_I am trying this public tool - any better approaches?Even after removing pages and submission on the tool, 600 pages are still indexed after 2-3 weeks!

• We deleted a lot of thin content/duplicate pages from the domain (nirogam.com) in Wordpress - All these pages are still in Google's index. They are in Trash folder now.

This is causing an increase in 404s in the webmasters etcI have served a 410 header (using wordpress plugin) on all these pages as these should not be directed to anything. However, Google does not always fully understand 410 properly and it still shows up in webmasters as read in this detailed post.All these pages are still indexed.How do I de-index these pages? Any other approach to stop the 404s and remove these pages for good?Any feedback/approach will be highly appreciated.

[pks333]

Hi Ramon,

Thanks for your detailed response.

I could do both the above things you mentioned but there is a basic problem: there is no webmasters account for the old sub-domain. Only if I have webmasters - I can remove the URLs manually/automatically.

Can I remove sub-domain URLs from main domain webmasters? What other options do I have to go about doing this - create new webmasters? (Verification would be an issue then)

[jenguyen]

Hi pks333,

I will give you my two cents, and I hope this will help you.

This new website I manage has many subdomains associated with it, and unfortunately all of them are indexed by Google. This includes dev, staging, test, and much more. I began verifying each individual subdomain as a property on Google Webmaster Tools.

Within Search Console > Google Index > Remove URL's I began removing URL's one by one (which I recorded manually based on searching Google for: site:dev.domain.com) by selecting "temporarily hide page from search results and remove from cache". Once I submitted the request I waited a full day, and so far I have removed 113 URLs from the Google Index.

For the site, in the of every page in the subdomain I placed the following tag:

I have been successful thus far. I hope this info helps.

• Ramon