How long after disallowing Googlebot from crawling a domain until those pages drop out of their index?
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We recently had Google crawl a version of the site we that we had thought we had disallowed already. We have corrected the issue of them crawling the site, but pages from that version are still appearing in the search results (the version we want them to not index and serve up is our .us domain which should have been blocked to them).
My question is this: How long should I expect that domain (the .us we don't want to appear) to stay in their index after disallowing their bot? Is this a matter of days, weeks, or months?
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Hi there,
Crawling and indexing are processes which can take some time and which rely on many factors. In general, we cannot make predictions or guarantees about when or if your URLs will be crawled or indexed.
Hope it helps you.
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If it is the case that no URL for .us should exist (there are not new URLs) then you can remove pretty swiftly in Webmaster Tools >> Google Index >> Remove URLs >> select the root URL and select to remove all directories that come from it.