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Removals and SafeSearch reports Tool

Removals and SafeSearch reports Tool

Temporarily block search results from your site, or manage SafeSearch filtering

The Removals tool enables you to temporarily block pages from Google Search results on sites that you own, see a history of removal requests from both property owners and non-owners, and also to see any URLs on your site that were reported as containing adult content.

To remove content on sites that you don't own, see this page.

Removals in Search Console - Google Search Console Training

Prerequisites

Follow this procedure to temporarily block a URL on your site from appearing in Google Search results.

When to use this tool When not to use this tool Temporarily block a URL

Very important notes:

To temporarily block a URL from Google Search, or update Google's view when a page has changed:

  1. The URL must be in a Search Console property that you own. If it's not, see the first item in When not to use this tool.
  2. Open the Removals tool.
  3. Select the Temporary Removals tab.
  4. Click New Request.
  5. Select either Temporarily remove URL or Clear snippet in search:
    1. Temporarily remove URL

      What does it do?

      Blocks the URL from Google Search results for about six months. The page can reappear in Search results after the blackout period. The page will be recrawled before appearing in Search results again.

      These steps will also clear the page snippet from Google's index.

      Use this feature as the first step in permanently blocking a page from Google Search results.

      You can block either a specific URL or all URLs that start with a specific prefix:

      Block a specific URL
      1. Enter the full URL to block. Use the correct URL as described below.
      2. Select Remove this URL only

      Important notes:

      • This option blocks only the exact matching URL from Search results, including the page extension (for example, .html) and parameters.
      • Anchors are never matched and should be omitted from your URL (mypage#anchor).
      • See additional notes below.
      Block URLs that start with a prefix
      1. Select Remove all URLs with this prefix
      2. Enter a matching prefix of URLs to block. This blocks all URLs beginning with the specified prefix, both www and non-www. For example:
        • Property: example.com,
        • Blocked path: https://example.com/foods/
        • Matched URLs:
          • http://example.com/foods/pizza
          • https://www.example.com/foods/bread?type=whole_wheat
          • https://www.example.com/foods/pasta/spaghetti/bologonese.html
        • To block an entire site, use a URL like this: https://example.com/
        • Blocking https://www.domain also blocks https://domain, since all www, non-www, http, and https versions will be blocked.
        • Blocking https://staging.domain will not block www.domain or https://domain.com. The directory removal flow blocks all sites with the same prefix without affecting the subdomain.

      See additional notes below.

      Additional notes:

      • Google may recrawl the page during the blackout period and refresh the page snippet, but will not show them until the blackout period expires, unless you make removal permanent.
      • For a directory removal without a trailing slash, all three combinations will be removed https://example.com/pageB,  https://example.com/page and  https://example.com/page/*
      • All variations of http and https, www and non-www match. So if you specify example.com/mypage
        • https://example.com/mypage matches
        • http://example.com/mypage matches
        • https://www.example.com/mypage matches
        • http://www.example.com/mypage matches
        • Other subdomains (such as m. or amp.) do not match. So http://m.example.com/mypage does not match.
    2. Clear snippet in search

      What does it do?

      Wipes out the page description snippet in Search results until the page is indexed again, when the snippet will be generated from the new content. Until the next time the page is indexed, the page description will say something like "No page description available."

      Use this feature when you remove sensitive information from a page and want to update your result snippet in Google Search. Note that the page might still appear in Search results that match the removed information until the page is reindexed; but the removed information won't appear in the snippet.

      Notes:

      Use the correct URL as described below. The URL must match exactly, including the page extension (for example, .html). Therefore, if you specify path/mypage, then the following URLs will NOT be matched:

      • path/MyPage, path/mypage?1234
      • path/mypage.html

      Anchors are never matched and should be omitted from your URL (mypage

      #anchor

      ).

  6. Select Next to complete the process. The request usually takes up to a day to process, and is not guaranteed to be accepted. Check back to see the status of the request. If your request has been denied, click Learn more to learn why.
  7. Submit additional removal requests for any additional URLs that might point to the same page, as well as any variations in URL casing that your server handles. For example, all the following URLs might point to the same page:
  8. To make your removal permanent, read the next sections.
Find the correct URL for blocking

Here's how to find the correct URL to submit to the tool in order to block it in Search results.

Web page URL

For a page, you must enter the exact URL that appears in Google Search results. Small variations in URLs—such as www.example.com/dragon vs. www.example.com/Dragon—are two different URLs. In order for Google to remove the content you want, you must enter the exact URL that you found in Google Search results.

To find the correct URL:

  1. Visit the page and copy the URL in your browser URL bar.
  2. Omit anchors (everything after a # mark). They will be ignored in your request.
  3. Include necessary parameters, but omit optional parameters. For example: https://example.com?item=1234 but not https://example.com/food?sort=ascending.
  4. Find any additional URLs for the same page: It's common for the same content to appear in multiple URLs. For example, all the following blog post URLs all point to the same page: 
    http://www.example.com/forum/thread/123
http://www.example.com/forum/post/456
http://www.example.com/forum/thread/123?post=456
http://www.example.com/forum/thread/123?post=456&sessionid=12837460

    Even if you successfully request removal of one URL, if the content you're trying to remove appears in our search results under other URLs, it can still appear. If this is the case, submit additional removal requests, one for each URL that displays this content.

Image URL

Here’s how to find the URL of an image to temporarily block that image:

  1. Find the image on Google Images using Google Chrome browser.
  2. Right-click the image and select Copy Link Address. Do not left-click the image first. (The URL should be something like this: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https....)
  3. Paste the URL into a file or document, so it’s available when you use the URL removal tool.
  4. Find any additional URLs for the same image; an image can be hosted at multiple URLs on the same site, or on different sites. To find additional copies of an image:
    1. Right-click an image in search results and choose Search Google for Image
    2. Click Find other sizes of this image: All sizes to get a page with all sizes
    3. Also browse "Pages that include matching images" on the bottom of the results page.

Make your removal permanent

The Removals tool provides only a temporary removal of about six months. To remove content or a URL from Google search permanently:

  1. Take one of the following actions to remove the page permanently:
  2. If you blocked the page before removing your content permanently (step 1), unblock and then reblock the page. This clears the page from the index, if it was recrawled after blocking.
Cancel a request

If you want to cancel your temporary block from search results:

  1. Open the Removals tool.
  2. Find your request in the history table.
  3. Click the menu button next to the request and select Cancel request.
See history of removal requests

You can see a history of all current and expired removal requests for your site that were made in the past 6 months.

See removal requests from non-owners

These are removal requests filed using the Remove Outdated Content tool. The Remove Outdated Content tool is used by non-site-owners to update search results when Google Search shows information that is no longer present on the site. Successful requests will update the result in Google: if the page is no longer present, the result will be removed from the index and will no longer be shown; if the content on the page is removed, Google Search will no longer trigger for, or show, the removed content.

You can see a list of your own removal requests, both current and expired, for the past 6 months in the Outdated content tab.

To see removal requests from non-owners:

  1. Open the Outdated content tab in the Removals tool. The history table includes the following information:
URL
The URL requested. All www/non-www/http/https variations of the URL shown are also included in the request.
Type
The type of request; can be one of the following:
Requested
The date when the request was filed, in Pacific Time.
Status
The status of the outdated content removal request. Can be one of the following:
See removal requests from property owners

You can see a list of your own removal requests, both current and expired, for the past 6 months.

To see your removal request history:

  1. Open the Temporary Removals tab in the Removals tool. The history table includes the following information:
URL
The URL requested. All www/non-www/http/https variations of the URL shown are also included in the request.
Type
The type of request:
Status
The status of the request:
See URLs on your site reported as adult content

Google users can report specific URLs as adult-only to Google using the SafeSearch suggestion tool. URLs submitted using this tool are reviewed, and if Google feels that this content should be filtered from SafeSearch results, these URLs are tagged as adult content.

To see a list of URLs on your site that were reported as adult content:

  1. Open the Removals tool.
  2. Select the SafeSearch Filtering tab.
  3. The history table shows the list of requests to label your content as adult material.

SafeSearch filtering requests can have the following status values:

If you believe that your site has been incorrectly categorized by SafeSearch and it has been at least 2-3 months since you've followed the guidance for optimizing your site, you can request a review.

Difference between the Removals tool and the Refresh Outdated Content tool

Search Console exposes two tools for removing or refreshing content in Search results:

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