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Limit on Google Removal Tool?
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I'm dealing with thousands of duplicate URL's caused by the CMS...
So I am using some automation to get through them -
What is the daily limit? weekly? monthly?
Any ideas??
thanks,
Ben
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Hi. I was curious to know if you were able to find all the urls that needed to be removed, if they were effectively removed, and if your traffic came back. I'm assuming you were dealing with Panda issues.
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Thanks @Baldea - yes, you are correct, as soon as it processes the requests for removal it allows for more to be added for removal.
In "one sitting", I managed to get 1000 URL's removed - within a few hours I could process more.
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It's been a while since I haven't used GWT, but I thing you have a limit of 500 requests/day or something like that.
As soon as those requests are processed the counter resets.
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Thanks Baldea....
Yes, I have done all the above, but still got some pages stuck in Google Index that got in there - now measurements are in place to stop that happening in the future.
But using batch process of GWT to remove the URL's that already got into the index.
So how many URL's can I remove with GWT?
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Hi BJ
I'd use the URL removal tool only after I'd make sure that I used rel=canonical (to point out which is the actual URL Google should consider "legit", use noindex, follow meta tag for the pages you don't want google to index - like tag or category pages or subpages -).
You can also use strings when removing pages, which may be way more effective than removing them one by one: eg: http://www.example.com/category/ - Google will remove all matching URLs.
But I strongly advise you to make sure you minimize as much as you can the duplicate content generation and use the two methods I highlighted above.
Hope it helps.
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