Wordpress translator plugin: Google Webmaster's Tools shows hundreds of 404 not found errors. How to clean the mess?

Question

I had Global Translator Wordpress plugin. It littered Google Search index with thousands of translated urls. Couple of months ago I removed the plugin and also the cached pages on the server.

But Google Index still have the translated web pages indexed and shows 404 errors in Web Master tools. I tried fixing the issue with robots.txt by blocking all the translated pages from index, but its taking long time to get it fixed. Can someone suggest me the better way to get all those indexed pages out of Google Index?

Answer 1

The answer is actually on their website:

Put a rewrite rule like this on your .htaccess:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/(it|ko|zh-CN|zh-TW|pt|en|de|fr|es|ja|ar|ru|el|nl|zh|zt|no|bg|cs|hr|da|fi|hi|pl|ro|sv|ca|tl|iw|id|lv|lt|sr|sk|sl|uk|vi|sq|et|gl|mt|th|tr|hu|be|ga|is|mk|ms|fa)/(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$2

Answer 2

Send a 410 status header for those resources:

.htaccess or httpd.config:

# adjust the query string to your URIs
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^translated
RewriteRule ^ - [L,R=410]