Remove Directory In Webmaster Tools

[paul-bold]

Hey Moz'erz,

I'm removing some URLS from the index and want to confirm the use of the "remove directory" request.

If my structure is this: /blogs/customer-success-stories/tagged/ --- all pages that are /tagged/abc, /tagged/dce etc. will be removed correct?

First time trying a directory removal as their are 100 plus of these tagged pages.

Comments, suggestions and past experiences welcome!

[KeriMorgret]

Are the URLs gone? Or you just don't want them to be indexed? It's better to set things up in Wordpress (if that's your CMS) to not index tags and categories than to go and tell GWT to remove them.

[paul-bold]

Hey Keri,

Thanks for the response!

The CMS is actually Shopify. The funny thing I have come to learn and have continued to look for a workaround is that you don't have any control over your robots.txt like you do with bigcommerce. These use to be on page links in a tag cloud.

After checking the analytics on them for conversions (first interaction attribution as a landing page from search) and traffic as well as any inbound links I deemed them fit for removal.

The tag cloud in since deleted and removed however with the Shopify CMS these pages still technically "exist" because of the way content and pages get served dynamically.

[BlueprintMarketing]

This might do what you want http://apps.shopify.com/power-tools-bulk-edit-tags