Deleting photos from google search
The Removals Tools in GSC Versus The Outdated Content Toolįirst, I know many people aren’t familiar with Google’s Outdated Content Tool, which has been around for a long time. I’ll walk you through using the Outdated Content Tool to target those images and remove them from the image results. I’ll explain more about that soon.įor this post, I’m going to show you how to remove an image from Google Images, when that image resides on a third-party site (out of your control). On that note, I find there’s a lot of confusion about the various tools Google provides for removals, and how to use them. Well, as long as the image has been removed from the third-party page that contained it, or if the page has been entirely removed from that site, Google provides functionality for quickly removing that image from the search results. And that can result in images hanging around the search results when they really should be removed, which can be extremely frustrating. From an image search standpoint, it can unfortunately lag behind web search for updating and/or removing files. For example, for times you can’t directly access the third-party site and you can’t access the Google Search Console (GSC) property for the site to use the Removals tool. Since the sites aren’t under your direct control, your options are limited. For example, profile photos from Twitter, Facebook, images from articles that have been removed, etc.
And many times, the images that people want to remove are on third-party sites outside of that person’s control. I’ve received many calls over the years about this very situation. There are times that pesky image search results stick around on Google even when those images have been removed from the web (or at least you think they have been removed from the web).