Hi there,
I have a strange behavior/seeing for many months now.
I had the intention some time ago to have a multi-product store (~1000 items) in ENG, ESP and GER. I figured out that it would be better to have separate pages for each market language, so I deleted the ESP and GER translations again and continued with English only. The links then started with de. (German page) and es. (Spanish page).
Pages/apps that can help index pages on GSC and Bing always show each page in 3 different variants.
In this case:
…com/sitemap…
…com/en-ca/…
…com/en-au/…
But whether this is really related to the previous language setting – I don’t know, it’s just a guess.
When I search Google for certain products on a previous German or Spanish page, it leads to my 404 not found page.
How do I get rid of all these “old” pages? I have already resubmitted the sitemap to the GSC several times, but nothing has helped. Do I have to change the sitemap myself?
Can someone assist?
Below few more screenshots.
Bing Site Explorer:
random selected page from GSC:
