Carrym
03-21-2007, 04:43 AM
We are going to remove several pages from our site that are currently indexed by Google, probably doing a 301 redirect to another page on our site.
Two questions:
1. When the Google spider visits our site subsequent to this, what will it see? Put another way, will these pages eventually drop out of the Google directory?
2. When the spider from another search engine, where the pages are not currently indexed, visits our site, will it still see those pages?
The goal here is for these pages to no longer be indexed as I believe we are being penalized in some search engines for content that is somewhat similar. Is the 301 redirect enough, or should we also add 'no robots' type text to it to keep it from being indexed? Or is there another way this should be handled (i.e., just completely delete the pages and show our site's "Page not Found" message)
Thanks
Two questions:
1. When the Google spider visits our site subsequent to this, what will it see? Put another way, will these pages eventually drop out of the Google directory?
2. When the spider from another search engine, where the pages are not currently indexed, visits our site, will it still see those pages?
The goal here is for these pages to no longer be indexed as I believe we are being penalized in some search engines for content that is somewhat similar. Is the 301 redirect enough, or should we also add 'no robots' type text to it to keep it from being indexed? Or is there another way this should be handled (i.e., just completely delete the pages and show our site's "Page not Found" message)
Thanks