🔑 Key Facts Before You Begin
Cloud Stacks campaigns distribute your content to independent third-party web properties. Once content is submitted and published to those properties, it exists outside of Search Atlas and cannot be retracted, edited, or removed — by Search Atlas or by you. This is a hard platform limitation, not a process gap.
Deleting a Cloud Stacks campaign inside Search Atlas does not remove or unpublish content that has already been sent to publishers.
📋 What Happens When You Delete a Campaign
Deleting a campaign in Search Atlas removes it from your dashboard and stops any future submissions associated with that campaign. It does not:
- Take down content that has already been published to web properties
- Send removal or unpublish requests to any third-party platform
- De-index pages from Google, Bing, or any other search engine
- Give you or Search Atlas access to those third-party sites to modify content
To delete a campaign, go to Left sidebar → Authority → Cloud Stacks, open the relevant campaign, and use the delete option. This action only affects your Search Atlas records.
🌐 Why Content Cannot Be Removed
When a Cloud Stacks campaign is submitted, content is distributed to external web properties operated by independent publishers. Search Atlas does not own, control, or have editorial access to those sites. Because of this:
- Search Atlas has no ability to log in to those properties and delete pages on your behalf
- There is no contractual or technical mechanism to issue a takedown to these publishers after submission
- Search Atlas support cannot contact individual cloud providers to request removal
This is the same situation you would face with a guest post or press release published on an external site — once it is live, the publishing platform controls the content.
🔍 What About Indexed Pages in Search Engines?
If pages from your Cloud Stacks campaign have already been crawled and indexed by search engines, Search Atlas cannot request de-indexing on your behalf because we do not have verified ownership of those third-party domains.
Standard webmaster de-indexing tools (such as Google Search Console's URL removal tool) require verified site ownership. Since you do not own the cloud web properties, those tools are not available to you for this content.
Over time, search engines may naturally drop low-authority or thin pages from their index, but this is not guaranteed and cannot be accelerated through Search Atlas.
⚠️ Important: Plan Before You Submit
Because published Cloud Stacks content is permanent and irreversible, please review the following before launching any campaign:
- Content accuracy: Confirm all URLs, brand names, anchor text, and facts are correct before submission.
- Target URLs: Make sure the pages you are promoting are live, correctly optimised, and intended to be associated with the distributed content long-term.
- Brand representation: All published content will be publicly visible and associated with the links and entities you include, indefinitely.
Once you click submit, the campaign content moves to external publishers immediately and the process cannot be reversed.
✅ What You Can Still Do
While you cannot remove already-published content, here are the actions that remain available to you:
- Delete the campaign record in Search Atlas (Left sidebar → Authority → Cloud Stacks) to stop tracking it and prevent any unsent submissions from being processed.
- Pause or stop future submissions if the campaign has scheduled or pending content that has not yet been sent.
- Create a new campaign with corrected content to build additional signals if the original content contained errors.
- Review campaign history via Left sidebar → Authority → Campaigns to see the status of all past submissions.
💬 Need Help?
If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.