Taking down pages without deleting folders

[neislab]

I'm a new lab tech in a research lab at a university and have been in charge of creating a new website. I did so via a third party and had my current site redirected to that website. However, the old website still technically exists when you search it in google or manually type in the URL for specific sub pages. How do I go about deactivating those pages (i.e. removing them from searches, URLs no longer existing if you type them in, etc.). Do I just have to delete all folders, or is there a way to deactivate them?

 

[scsi]

You will not stop google indexing old pages. Just delete everything and start over.

 

[Hexweb]

With a Robot.txt file you can say to google to stop indexing those pages.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062608?hl=en

User-agent: *
Disallow: /oldwebsite/

Or use this meta tag in the old website (On all pages of them)

<metaname="robots"content="noindex,nofollow"/>

https://yoast.com/prevent-site-being-indexed/

And if the website isn't existing anymore you can remove the pages with "Google Webmaster Tools"
Only thing you need to do is make an account and verify that you are the owner of the domain.

then with this how-to you can delete them from google.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419?hl=en

And for the time being you can add a 301 redirect if the page isn't existing anymore on that url. Google will change it automatically in his search engine.