Oh Noes - Google Indexing Problem

[Trikkur]

I was designing a new launch of one of my sites, and we were developing everything on a subdomain. Well, we installed some WP blogs and their pinging system allowed google to get into our development subdomain and index all kinds of stuff it shouldn't have. Now there are a ton of random pages in the google index that is almost impossible for me to 301 all of.

How bad is this going to hurt me. I've now launched the site and it's going to hopefully index it all correctly. I'm assuming all those bad URLs will sooner or later drop out of google, but how long does that take and how bad is it going to hurt me?

[themike537]

You can remove all the URLs from Google's index by using the Webmaster tools removal tool.

[Trikkur]

that works for some of the indexed pages, but a lot are on a subdomain dev.mysite.com and I don't know how to remove those.

[MJ]

is it Wordpress? Install redirection and get to work.

*Welcome to my life*

[kingcobra]

Make sure that you exclude these URL's from your sitemap which is always the first step.