Seeing URLS indexed that we don't want how do we approach this?

[edward-may]

Hey guys,

I have seen a few pages in the SERPS that are appearing from my site, some of these pages urls are actually ajax to refresh the buttons on our site... If these are important to our site but don't need to show up in the serps results can anyone recommend anything?  Should I remove the urls? Or exclude them from the sitemap? or noindex?

Any advice would be much appreciated

thanks

[Alick300]

Hi Justin,

If those pages are refresh to button on our site that means that won't useful for users so you should deindexed those pages.

You can remove URL from Google search console and also place meta robots noindex on those pages.

Thanks

[edward-may]

Thanks alot Alick300

What if some of them are not pages instead are showing up as links? see this link https://www.zenory.com.au/profile/15/buttons

[hectormainar]

Removing them from sitemap will not make them disappear from Google Index. A sitemap is a tool which allows the spider to discover new pages, but one indexed they won't disappear from the index just for removing them.

If you don't want them to be indexed, you can remove then using Google Search Console, and going to "Optimization"/"Remove URLs". It is faster than including the noindex metatag.

If they contain just a link as in your example, I would remove them without any doubt.

[edward-may]

Thanks Hectormainar,

My developer confirmed that they were not pages, just links

https://www.zenory.com.au/profile/26/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profile/5/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profiles/16/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profiles/20/buttons https://www.zenory.com.au/profiles/12/buttonswith these would there still need to be a noindex metatag added?