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Vreau sa aduc o clarificare la ce a zis @Hakuna Matata. Toolul de removal nu sterge pagina din index, o elimina doar din cautari.
- The URL removal tool is not meant to be used for normal site maintenance like this. This is part of the reason why we have a limit there.
- The URL removal tool does not remove URLs from the index, it removes them from our search results. The difference is subtle, but it's a part of the reason why you don't see those submissions affect the indexed URL count.
- The robots.txt file doesn't remove content from our index, but since we won't be able to recrawl it and see the content there, those URLs are generally not as visible in search anymore.
- In order to remove the content from our index, we need to be able to crawl it, and we should see a noindex robots meta tag, or a 404/410 HTTP result code (or a redirect, etc). In order to crawl it, the URL needs to be "not disallowed" by the robots.txt file.
- We generally treat 404 the same as 410, with a tiny difference in that 410 URLs usually don't need to be confirmed by recrawling, so they end up being removed from the index a tiny bit faster. In practice, the difference is not critical, but if you have the ability to use a 410 for content that's really removed, that's a good practice.
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