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Google "should" follow your guidelines on whether to index a page or not, but sometimes they have other ideas. Or if they index a page and then you change the setting to noindex, it can take awhile for that page to drop off their radar. However, if you have a Google Search Console account you can request that they remove a page from their index and usually they will honor that request.

A few years ago Google indexed my Squarespace built-in domain and I went through a process to remove that from their index and it worked well. I did a write-up here on how to set-up your Google Search Console account and then remove the URLs you don't want in their index.

https://modsquare.io/blog/remove-squarespace-domain-google-search-results

Just scroll about 1/3rd of the way down the page and you'll see a subhead called " Resolution: Use A Google Search Console Account to Remove These URLs" and follow the instructions. Just use your primary domain and not the SQSP built-in domain. 

This is probably going to be the fastest way to get rid of those. It might take up to a few weeks but I'll bet that this clears it up for you.

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