On our website, we have many "project" pages with a similar URL structure.
Ex: acme.com/projects/unique-project-title
Another site that backlinks to us uses utm parameters (and we want them to) when pointing to our project pages.
Ex: acme.com/projects/unique-project-title?utm_campaign=sister_site
This last type of URL has already been indexed on Google.
Since we noticed the problem, we have added a canonical link so that Google will know to not index the URLs with UTM parameters in the future.
How can I safely remove the currently indexed UTM param URLs, and only have the correct "original" URLs indexed?
We are using a Domain Property on Google Search Console and therefore cannot use the URL Parameter tool.
- Should we remove the incorrect URLs via the removal tool?
Worried that doing may cause a gap in coverage or remove our search results. We have already submitted a sitemap with only the correct URLs but not sure how long that will take to be fully crawled.
