How to remove plugin completely

Hi @tromari, Print My Blog doesn’t add any links that need to be cleared in the database. And actually, when the plugin is active, there’s a button to “Delete All Data” (on the plugins page under “Print My Blog”) which removes all the data PMB saves to the database. Here’s a screenshot.

It sounds like Google is taking a while to update its list of pages on your site. Can you share the URL of your site and some screenshots from what you’re seeing from Google?

Unfortunately, I did not know about the delete data button in the summer, it would be very convenient. I had issues with the security plugin that needed to be resolved quickly. My website is https://expat-rus.de. I can not add a images to this answer, WordPress said that File uploading is disable.
Therefore I copy from Google
I see in Google “Alternative Seite mit richtigem kanonischen Tag”
And more than 1400 links with similar content:
For example:
https://expat-rus.de/page/28/?print-my-blog=1&post-type=post&statuses%25252525252525255B%25252525252525255D&rendering_wait=0&columns=1&font_size=normal&image_size=small&links=include&show_site_title=1&show_site_tagline=1&show_site_url=1&show_title=1&show_url=1&show_categories=1&show_featured_image=1&show_content=1&format=pdf&pmb-post=335

or
https://expat-rus.de/page/27/?print-my-blog=1&post-type=post&statuses%2525252525255B%2525252525255D&rendering_wait=0&columns=1&font_size=normal&image_size=small&links=include&show_site_title=1&show_site_tagline=1&show_site_url=1&show_title=1&show_url=1&show_categories=1&show_featured_image=1&show_content=1&format=pdf&pmb-post=484

Except 4 links, the rest are related to print-my-blog and there are more and more of them every time.

It’s ok you didn’t see the “Delete All Data” button, because I really don’t think it would have made a difference in this case. PMB itself, once inactive, does not continue to add any hyperlinks to your content, so there’s nothing in the plugin itself that I can do to get Google to listing those PMB print pages. But I will share what I’ve found.

Thanks for providing the URLs which gives me a clue. (If you want to upload photos, you need to upload them somewhere else, like Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive, then share the link to them here).

It seems that Google indexed one of PMB’s print pages (which it shouldn’t as the links have “rel=’nofollow'”)like https://expat-rus.de/?print-my-blog=1&post-type=post&statuses%25252525252525255B%25252525252525255D&rendering_wait=0&columns=1&font_size=normal&image_size=small&links=include&show_site_title=1&show_site_tagline=1&show_site_url=1&show_title=1&show_url=1&show_categories=1&show_featured_image=1&show_content=1&format=pdf&pmb-post=335. And because PMB is now inactive, the print page is just treated like your homepage (everything after the ? is mostly ignored), and WordPress adds everything after the ? onto the pagination links at the bottom of the page.

So you need to verify there are no more hyperlinks on your site that link to a PMB print page (page with ...?print-m-blog=1...) then get Google to re-index your site.

Does that make sense?

I also think that there are hyperlinks somewhere, but I can’t imagine where. It’s definitely not in the texts, I checked with a search. It’s should be plugins or database. I checked the databases again, found a number of links not in Options, but in other entries, such as Post and some plugins, and started a recheck with Google. Hope this helps. Perhaps the reason is the proxy from Ezoic, but here I, as a non-programmer, unfortunately, do not understand anything.

Ok if you’ve removed Print My Blog (PMB) from your site, there’s no way it’s adding those links now.

Maybe Google indexed one of those pages, then when it goes to re-index the site, it might use one of those previously-indexed pages as a starting point. If so, the site’s “older posts” and “newer posts” at the bottom of the page would link to more (because it automatically adds everything after the “?” in the URL onto those links).

One possible way to break that cycle would be to change your site’s homepage to be an actual page instead of just the blog posts page (I think that’s in WP admin > settings > general). That would remove the “older posts” and “newer posts” buttons from the homepage, and instead put them on the new blog posts page (at whatever other URL you put it).

That workaround is probably not what you want, but it should work eventually. I’m not an expert on Google Analytics. You might want to talk to the developers of whichever plugin you’re using for Google Analytics integration to see how you can get these no-longer-existing URLs removed from your Google Analytics dashboard, or maybe hire a WP+ Google Analytics professional from jobs.wordpress.net to help.

I’m sorry you’re having trouble removing Print My Blog’s old URLs from Google Analytics though. Eventually I’ll be changing how PMB works to prevent this for future users.

I’m closing this issue for now seeing how I don’t see any way PMB is causing this issue now that it’s deactivated, but feel free to reopen or add more comments if you like.