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So, you basically can't 'force' Google to do anything but there may be better ways to encourage them to remove these URLs The only way to force Google to remove a URL is to use the URL removal tool in Google Search Console but this only removes a page temporarily and it's a pain to do en-masse submissions. As such, not my recommendation One thing to keep in mind. You have loads of pages with no-index directives on, but Google is also blocked frown crawling those pages via robots.txt. So if Google can't crawl the URLs, how can it find the no-index directives you have given? Robots.txt should be used for this - but your chronological deployment is off it's too early. You should put this on at the very, very end when Google has 'gotten the message' and de-indexed most of the URLs (makes sense, yes?) My steps would be: No-index all these URLs either with the HTML or X-Robots (HTTP header) deployment (there are multiple Meta robots deployments, if editing the page-code is gonna be difficult! Read more here) Also deploy noarchive in the same way to stop Google caching the URLs. Also deploy nosnippet to remove the snippets from Google's results for these pages, which will make them less valuable to Google in terms of ranking them For the URLs that you don't want indexed, make the page or screen obviously render content that says the page is not available right now. This one might be tricky for you as you can't do it just for Googlebot, that would be considered cloaking under some circumstances On the pages which you have no-indexed, serve status code 404 to Google only (if it's just a status code, it's not considered cloaking). So for useragent GoogleBot make the HTTP response a 404 on those URLs (temporarily available but coming back). Remember to leave the actual, physical contents of the page the same for both Googlebot and users, though If that doesn't work swap out the 404 (sent only to GoogleBot) with a 410 (status code: gone, not coming back) to be more aggressive. Note that it will then be harder to get Google to re-index these URLs later. Not impossible, but harder (so don't open with this) Once most URLs have been de-indexed and de-cached by Google, put the robots.txt rule(s) back on to stop Google crawling these URLs again Reverse all changes once you want the pages to rank (correct the page's contents, remove nosnippet, noarchive and noindex directives, correct the status code, lift the robots.txt rules etc) Most of this hinges on Google agreeing with and following 'directives'. These aren't hard orders, but the status code alterations in particular should be considered much harder signals Hope that helps