If nothing else test the tool to see what an email from Google looks like so you can monitor for someone doing shady and trying to remove your content.

Beyond that, use the tool as needed to remove content or monitor your removed content and that you haven't tripped Safe Search Filtering.

Announcement & Coverage

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/01/new-removals-report-in-search-console.html"We’re happy to announce that we’re launching a new version of the Removals report in Search Console, which enables site owners to temporarily hide a page from appearing in Google Search results. The new report also provides info on pages on your site that have been reported via other Google public tools." https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6349986?hl=en https://searchengineland.com/google-search-console-launches-new-removals-tool-328328"Google gives you two types of removals:Temporary remove URL will hide the URL from Google Search results for about six months and clear the cached copy of the page.Clear cache URL clears the cached page and wipes out the page description snippet in Search results until the page is crawled again."

The Good

Anytime Google gives us more ways to alert them or tell them via a sitemap.xml, tool or the Google Search Console we are all for it. There may be a number of uses when pages you DON'T want indexed or available but it is, this is just another way to speed things up.

Wrong/Bad Product PageOutdated PageThank You Page

The Bad

We couldn't think of much as we love when Google gives us more control or ways to inform them of what is going on with the site. The one thing that scares us is how people may look for ways to misuse the Public facing form.

Transcript

[00:00:00] Matt Siltala: Hey

guys, excited to be here with you on a another one of these episodes. How's it

going, Dave?

Dave Rohrer: [00:00:16]

Top of the morning,

Matt Siltala: [00:00:17]

top of the board into the afternoon whenever

Dave Rohrer: [00:00:22]

is we're recording. I don't know.

Matt Siltala: [00:00:23]

Or when they're listening. What else? Whatever you need it to be. Um, but you

know, we don't often jump into these type of topics. Uh, you know, we, we tend

to record a few of these at a time and, and, uh, but we kind of felt this one

was an interesting one to get into, but, uh, this is something that has to do

Dave, with Google's content removal tool, the new tool that they just put out.

Now, Barry, um, of course posted about it on the 28th of

January. And in the morning, I guess, or Google did a post about it in the

morning of [00:01:00] January 28th and then Barry posted about it, jumped right

on it, and yes, as he does. And, uh, but it's got some, you know, some as, as

always with stuff like this, there's same some, uh.

Mixed reviews going out of about it. There's lots of

different views and lots of different, uh, um, things that people are saying

about it. And so we thought we would probably just jump in and spend a little

time, give some of our thoughts like, uh, and Dave, you know, you could talk

about, uh, you know, who you were sharing with posted about it earlier if you

want.

But, uh, you know, some of my first initial thoughts and our

conversations with us is if there's a way for someone in our industry to abuse

it. Hey, well,

Dave Rohrer: [00:01:46]

yup.

Matt Siltala: [00:01:46]

And so again, those are like my absolute very first thoughts and I'm thinking,

okay, well, you know, who's to say that a, again, we joke about, uh, we, we

just talked about the, uh, the, the term span that we [00:02:00] believe, uh,

it was Brett tap key, right?

That, uh, you know, sites the sites position above mine.

Damn. And so, you know,

Dave Rohrer: [00:02:10]

everything's spam. If it's in front of me, that's the only reason.

Matt Siltala: [00:02:14]

So let's go and report these guys. Well, is it outdated content? It's spam.

It's above me. I'm going to get rid of