I am helping resolve an issue with a WordPress website that was apparently hacked and injected with non-existent and spammy URLs. A new site map.xml file was created on the server and Google indexed a bunch of non-existent pages by using this site map.
The content that was injected had Japanese characters and was completely irrelevant to the content that the website initially had.
Although all of that is now fixed, and the website does not contain any malicious code, Google continues to show previously indexed non-existent URLs when we search for site:www.thewebsite.com.
I have installed the Yoast SEO wordPress plug-in and regenerated a new site map with the correct URLs. I submitted this newly generated site map to my Google search console account.
Despite doing this Google continues to show the older malicious indexes URLs when we search for site:www.thewebsite.com
How can I get it to stop doing that?
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