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Problems with popular web pages

edenworkshops

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Posted February 20, 2012 at 1:03PM

Hello

I have a series of popular web pages on my site that are listed in the top 3 on Google for their keyword.

I am unable anymore to supply what they advertise and will have to delete those pages, but what I am thinking is, if I delete these pages they will still be listed on Google (will they not?) and people trying to visit them will be frustrated at not being able to find them, is there a way out of this problem?

Thank you

Richard

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Ansolan

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Posted February 20, 2012 at 5:43PM

Hi

301 redirect is the best solution:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

Visitors will go to the page you choose to redirect to, which should be a related page, for their benefit and for search engines.

Major search engines will eventually recognise the new page as representing the old and are likely to transfer any value that had in their terms.

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Forum Editor

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Posted February 21, 2012 at 12:21PM

Google will rapidly update its database to reflect the changes. In the meantime, Ansolan's suggestion for a 301 redirect is sound.

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Lazarus The 2nd

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Posted February 25, 2012 at 4:59PM

Spam,

FE Informed..

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