How to remove a website from Google? And how long does it take?

When you have a private website that should not be in Google’ search results: you probably need to remove it from the index.

There are two methods to remove a website:

Method #1: add “noindex” on each page and wait for Google to crawl the website back! With this method: it takes 2 to 6 weeks.

Method #2: add “noindex” on each page, register your website in Google Webmaster Tools, and expedite the removal and reduce it to a few hours.