What's the best way to de index the pages?

[superiorword]

I wanna remove some pages from Google web index and wondering what's the best way to do it. Should I use GWT to de index or use robots.txt? Or use both?

I've heard that doing it through GWT takes weeks or months to deindex the pages. In case it should be done with robots txt only, is this the right way?:


(User-agent: *
Disallow: /page-you-wanna-remove/

[pokeraussie]

Just delete the pages. I usually see them get deindexed within days or 1-2 weeks at the most (assuming the site is well crawled).

Probably not a bad idea to rebuild the XML sitemap file as well.