How To Remove Deleted Blog Posts/Pages From Google Search Result

Deleted posts still showing on Google and Bing, noindexed URLs and post still shows? This and many more complaints are everywhere: however, this tutorial shows you the SEO best practices to removing indexed and noindexed blog, posts, deleted articles e.t.c. Both on Google, Bing and other search engines.

Overview

This tutorial is broken down into the following questions and guidelines of note:
Deleted articles on my blog are still showing up on Google and Bing

In most cases, people experience this sort of annoying situation; however, the following should be correctly followed:

• Make sure that the item, article or post is deleted from your blog/website. To check this, ensure that a proper 404 error page is returned anytime you click on the address. This is the standard SEO practice for a deleted page.
• Make sure that you do not redirect the deleted page to somewhere else, e.g. homepage, related posts e.t.c. 
• Try and locate backlinks that are pointing to that particular page, post or blog; make frantic effort to delete them from this sources (this is quite tough, especially if you do not have control on such, but try and reduce the backlink source to a minimum. The reason for this is because Google bots and other search engine spiders follow the link from the backlinks and as such, they are under obligation to still show it on the search page ( or the Google webmaster dashboard). Over time, as they see the page as 404, they will stop crawling it. 
• Check within your blog/website and fix broken link issues i.e. no more interlinking to the deleted page/post.
• I always highly recommend using this tool to check for broken links
•  If deleted page is related to the category, tag e.t.c. That is being blocked by robots.txt, remove it from the robot tag. Blocking such page will make it permanent, and Google spiders will not be able to see and crawl. It is only when they crawl that they can be removed from the index. In fact, the overuse of robots.txt is an anti-Google SEO practice

Solution

After you have properly implemented the above, follow these steps:

• For a deleted post or page, go to Google webmaster dashboard 
• Under Google index, locate 'Remove URLs' 
• copy & paste your URL into it and chose remove from search and cache results 
• In the case of Yahoo and Bing search results, go to the Bing dashboard ( you must be registered and verified your blog/website) 
• Towards the left-hand side, check for ‘block URL,' copy the address and paste in inside the box.

SEO best practices to achieving this set objective

The following are the recommended ways by the search engines if you want to remove posts, articles, and blogs from their index.

• The first option is to NOINDEX the blog or post; instead of deleting, the preferred way is to NOINDEX it, then after some few days or week ( 2 weeks max), you can then remove it 
• Moreover, if you have deleted the post or blog, follow the laid down guidelines above

Finally

Google, most especially takes time for recrawling, so little patience matters. For Bing, they are fast to commence recrawling.

So, be patient!!