Remove URL

Hiding a link on your website doesn't mean that the URL is gone or inaccessible. Hiding it just takes it off your site so that site visitors are unable to click on it. 

An example is if you remove the View Archived Works page the url of that page may still come up in a search.

The URL of any hidden link is still indexed by Google. There isn't anything we can do to remove the URL from their index.

Google offers instructions on how to log into your Google console and request removal of URLs from sites which you own. If you haven't done the Google site ownership verification for your domain, you would need to do that first.

This FAQ outlines how to do the Google site ownership verification:
Verify Site Ownership on Google Search Console

Once you have verified your site, click here for the Google help doc, Removals and SafeSearch reports Tool. It provides the steps on how to request the removal.

Remove Hidden Custom Page

If you create a Custom Page, choosing Unlisted (only visible to people with the direct link) for the Visibility setting, the URL will still be indexed by Google.

You can use meta tags on the page(s) to tell google not to index them.

The code is:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

To place it on an individual page:

• from FASO Site Dashboard
• Categories & Pages (left menu - if you don't see the full options on the left, click the 3 bar menu icon, upper left corner)
• Custom Pages
• Click Edit for the page you want to add it to
• Click Advanced SEO & Code button
• Add 
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> 
  to the Head Javascript text box
• Save

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