deindexing

Erasing from searches

Deindexing is the removal of a webpage or website from a search engine's index, making it no longer appear in search results.

This can happen deliberately—a site owner requesting removal of outdated content—or as a penalty when search engines detect spam or policy violations.

After the GDPR request, Google began deindexing pages containing her personal information.

SEO

penalty

Punishment for wrongdoing

  • GoogleDominant web search provider
  • SERPQuery outcome display
  • algorithmFinite problem-solving procedure

ranking · robots.txt · webmaster · backlinks · authority · organic · traffic · keywords · relevance · canonical

censorship

suppression

Forcible prevention or concealment

omission · invisibility · hidden · concealment · redaction · unlisted · blocking · takedown · shadowban · memory hole

finance

delisting

Removal from exchange

SEC · compliance · regulation · trading · suspension · investors · shares · equity · public company · market capitalization

Opposites
search visibility

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Systematic organization for retrieval

crawling · search engine optimization · listing · SEO · ranking

catalog/database inclusion

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Systematic organization for retrieval

cataloging · registration · listing · inclusion · archiving

Family

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