Nearly a year ago I redirected several sites that I no longer wanted carry on with. This led to hundreds of thousands of pages between them entering into the supplemental index. Now I could of got rid of them by using Google’s removal tool but in past experiences once the removal request expires they pop straight back into the index even if you have specifically banned Google from your site using a robots.txt file.

So I thought I would just leave them there to see how long it took for them to disappear. Today I noticed that they have all gone. Every single one of them. I also noticed that on some sites which are still up now where I had old pages which didn’t exist anymore that they have gone too.

So, has Google just updated their supplemental index? It’s been a long time coming if they have.

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