The impact of Google Search Console’s URL removal tool

Did you know that the removal tool in Google Search Console could remove your site from Google?

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So about a month ago, LinkedIn fell out of Google’s index and this behavior was spotted by the SEO community. John Mueller from Google then posted the following PSA via a tweet:

He shared:

“Removing the “http://” version of your site will remove all variations (http/https/www/non-www). Don’t use the removal tools for canonicalization.”

He then shared a link to the Google documentation around the removals tool. Did they use the removal tool? They never called out the LinkedIn team by name, but consider yourself warned.

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