How to Remove an Entire Website from the Internet
So you need to completely destroy and remove your website and try not leave any traces behind. Well.. its not that easy to remove the pages from the search engines. But there is a way to speed up the process.
I had hard time finding a clear answer on this, but here is the solution I found that works.
This is for a typical Linux web server. I don’t know about IIS
***WARNING – This really does get rid of your website. So be sure you want to do this.
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1. Backup your site (if you want to).
2. Completely delete all files from your web root. (via ftp or ssh) This includes any databases or applications like WordPress. If you have server access and the ability to terminate the account, do that. Then recreate a new account on the same domain with nothing on the web.
3.Create or update a robot.txt file with the following:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
4. Update your .htaccess file with the following
Redirect 410 /
(get rid of all else in the .htaccess).
5. Upload the robots.txt and .htaccess to the web server.
The result of this is that robots cannot index your site. There’s nothing there anyway but this tells them to go away and don’t come back. The 410 error is “GONE” – the resource is intentionally and permanently removed. This will speed up the process of search engines removing content from their index.
It may still take several weeks or months for your site to be gone… gone.. gone. But eventually, it will be.
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