(Entry was posted by Neil Cheesma on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/20/2017).

Removing pagesfrom Google index

Anyone any advice how to deal with this... a co.uk domain was registered along with .com several years ago... the co.uk domain has always been the one with the content on it and the .com variation as `always` been redirected to the .co.uk I noticed today that in Google index the .com variation (ONLY the homepage) is also shown in the index. When looking at the cached `view source` the co.uk url is shown and content etc. Not sure how this has happened... but now how to remove from Google index - as my guess is that IF submit to remove Google will `say` there is live content.... The .com variation isn`t listed in WMT as it has never had content on it... Any suggestions how best to deal with this?

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Jim Munro: Check the redirect to be certain it is not 302?
Gareth Daine: 301 redirect the .com to the .co.uk.
Neil Cheesman: Or.. should Google automatically drop the .com out of the index....
Alan Bleiweiss: And as long as a proper (confirmed 301) redirect is in place, there`s no need to do anything else.
Alan Bleiweiss: Is the URL inidexed, or the home page entirely, with content? The cache implies just the URL. If so, does the .com URL have the "robots.txt" description about being blocked?
Neil Cheesman: Getting on to it... sounds like the 301 wasn`t set up correctly or hasn`t worked somewhere along the line...
Neil Cheesman: it is ONLY the url in the index.... the cache is the co.uk
Jenny Halasz: If 301 is set up properly and it still shows up as .com, check the backlinks... Maybe the majority of them are to .com. Not a problem if that is the case, but it would explain why G prefers the .com.

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Removing pagesfrom Google index

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