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Hi John

Thanks for taking your time to answer!

The URL's were already showing 301 or 404 when we discovered them after launching new site

What we did so far was this:

1. set up 301 redirect from pissup.com/german-url to pissup.com/english-equivalent where available or closest similar page
2. added a sitemap with these URL's with the hope they'd be crawled faster
3. Wait

We were advised it was better to redirect than to ask for removal. Do you disagree with this advice, and what makes you think so?

We're really seeing an increase yet for these issues in the SERPS. Some decrease by 5-10%, but some don't. Can it be because we are not seeing them all in SERPS, and in that case is there anywhere else we could find them (all url's indexed by google on our domain)?

Hi John

Yes, the idea is that https://www.pissup.de/package/basic-survival-4/ should redirect to a german equivalent where we have one.

It's strange that it isn't as it has not been more than a week since I uploaded all the redirects. Perhaps this is down to the site: search not providing all results, and perhaps if it's limiting the amount of results, when some are removed, it starts showing others that were not showing before?

Yep, this one I fixed just now as you send it.

I think the issue with wrong redirects is mostly me not spotting them all rather than a problem with the ones I already set not redirecting correctly.

I expect there to be thousand + wrong pages, but when I use site:domain.tld and a word in wrong language, for instance "evg" (french word for bachelor party) Google spots only up to 300 (suspiciously the same maximum amount for all sites).