Post-hack: Will these disgusting URLs ever disappear?

You could manually tell google to remove the URLs in question via the webmaster tools.

Or you could tell google directly that the urls don’t exist… by returning 404 errors.

I’ve gone to my Google webmaster tools and it only lists the 3 bad URLs that do result in 404 errors. It gives me the option to mark them as fixed but not to delete them.

So the bad URLs that redirect to my main page.., how do I make those 404 instead? Do I have to write an .htaccess redirect to my 404 page for every single bad URL? That seems intimidating.

It’s somewhat unexpected that a 404 would redirect to your site. What is causing that? It should show the 404-page that your theme most likely has, with http status 404.

If Google bot follows such links it will remove them – as petkovsc also pointed out – if it encounters a 404, but will keep the links if it actually does get a 301 or alike.

To check, type the link yourself and check with firebug or whatever tool (check under network) to see what http status you get when requesting that page. 404 is good, 30x is not good.

You probably have a redirect plugin. Reconfigure it to not disable 404s. This isn’t a standard config. Something you or your staff did to make this happen.

Don’t look in webmaster tools for 404s. You aren’t giving any due to the problem above.

Remove URLs in your webmaster tools:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals

All right I’ll contact my webhost about it if I don’t find a solution in my cPanel. I certainly didn’t do this and I don’t have any staff.

Hello Kat,
I haven’t tested this code but you can test it if you want to. If you want to test it, place it in your themes functions.php file. You need to manually add all query strings you want to give a 404 for in the “force404” array. A query string is everything that comes after the questionmark in the URL.

add_filter('template_redirect', 'my_404_override' );
function my_404_override() {
	$qs = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
	$force404 = Array(
		"some-disgusting-porn-description",
		"another-disgusting-porn-description"
	);
	if (in_array($qs, $force404)) {
	    status_header( 404 );
        nocache_headers();
        include( get_query_template( '404' ) );
        die();
	}
}