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zawam
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
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Posted: 10/30/2006 04:43 am
Hey, i have around 100 pages listed i google that no longer exist, or i have deleted that page or changed the name. I am getting an extreme ammount of hits to these pages, and i want to know is there anyway i can redirect these pages to my index page?
I know they have a tech term, Error 301 is it? I cant remember, just they show up in the traffic report.
Thanks for any help...
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SportsGuy
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Joined: Aug 30, 2002
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Posted: 10/30/2006 04:47 am
Here's a guide to 301 practices.
You could also put up a custom 404 error page with links to other areas of your site to help redirect that traffic around to other internal areas of the site... 
Won't tell the engines the content has moved, and won't pass along any page rank the old pages may have had, but if your goal is to move the users around and generate page views it could help.
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bhartzer
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Posted: 10/30/2006 10:59 am
Yes, like Sportsguy said, the best thing to do is to find pages where that content has moved to--and set up a 301 Permanent Redirect to redirect the visitors to the new content.
If you have removed the content, then set up a custom 404 error page and tell people that you've removed the content and they can go to the home page of your site.
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g1smd
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Posted: 10/30/2006 04:18 pm
You should not 301 redirect multiple pages to your root index page. There is no way that multiple pages (perhaps even multiple topics) have moved to that page.
For pages that have "gone" just serve a simple custom 404 error page with some basic site navigation to get the visitor on their way again.
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