Waiting well over threee months, it seems there are some pages (deeper in structure with links througout) that really don’t want to dissappear.
These are mainly noindex pages. Am considering the
User-agent: *
Disallow:
And really don’t think I should use webmaster delete tool for this.
How to make these go away at this point?
Might be worth doing a noindex/nofollow on the pages if they still exist and maybe a 301 redirect as well.
They have noindex, will adding nofollow really make a difference?
Isn’t the noindex alone supposed to make the pages fall off?
What is the last cache date of these pages?
There is no cache date(s) , only link is ‘similar’
You can delete the page from google cache with Google Webmaster tool. It will take 90 days to reflect the effect. If you use noindex, nofollow by meta robots then the page will not come to SE and not link juice will pass to other document in the web, but SE still crawls the page. So if you want to block the page from crawling you have to use robots.txt file and disallow the file or folder. But in this case google will show url of the page or folders in a non conventional way in SERP.