How to remove url directory

  • Hi,

    I used a theme to create a website and when I checked google today, I saw that apparently a standard post from the theme existed and google linked to it, with information on the mockup company of the theme’s standard website. I found out that there were 4 posts like that in my website, about the mockup gym company. So I deleted the associated posts, but the url(s) with the directory are still online. How can I delete this url/directory? My website doesn’t have anything to do with a gym, so I want this gone and not just a redirect. I checked google and the forum here, but couldn’t find a solution. Maybe it’s not called a directory and I’m searching in the wrong direction.

    Thank you in advance!

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  • Hello,

    it seems google crawled your site when you had your demo content on your website and now it’s showing up in search results.

    You should submit your Sitemap to google again and it will crawl your site again, and in sometime it will refresh the results.

    I see you are using AIOSEO plugin, this post(s) will help you doing so.

    How to Create an XML Sitemap & Submitting a Sitemap to Google.

    If you have more questions about the plugin, you can ask on their support page HERE.

    After doing all that suggested by @surviving404, you just have to WAIT.

    Once these URLs don’t exist and are returning the proper 404 HTTP response code, Google will eventually drop them out of their index.

    Thread Starter question4321

    (@question4321)

    Okay, thank you both very much, will do! But my question is, how can I make sure the URLs won’t exist anymore? I deleted the posts, but wordpress keeps the URLs with these keywords, it seems.

    No, WordPress is not keeping any URLs with any keywords. And the URL you provided in your original post does NOT exist: it says “page not found”.

    What you’re seeing is on Google, not on your website.

    Note that when you search in Google, the results you see are not fetched from your website in realtime.

    Here’s what happens instead: Google comes to visit your website, takes inventory of what they find, and adds this to their database (search index). So when you search at Google, what you’re seeing is taken from Google’s own servers… and it’s what Google found the last time they visited the site.

    Now if you change something on your site, Google will continue to show the old material they found the last time they visited… until they visit again to find the changes you made (including any pages you’ve deleted).

    It’s only after this re-visit that Google will update their database and remove any old, dead URLs.

    This is what @surviving404 explained earlier (in far fewer words!), and why I said you’ll just have to WAIT for Google to “re-visit” your site.

    Thread Starter question4321

    (@question4321)

    Ooohhh, now I get it, thanks! I read in several places that the URL would remain to exist, even though the content would be gone, and ppl advised redirects. But apparently that was old/fake news then. Thanks so much, I’ll just wait and then it’ll sort itself out. Thank you!

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