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noniman
Nov 2nd 2005, 3:56 pm
I started using Google sitemap several weeks ago. It’s all working fine apart from several HTTP errors for pages which do not exist anymore or have been renamed for nearly a year.
After reading through this forum, I decided to put some permanent redirects in place via the .htaccess file. I now ended up with over 30 redirects not all pointing to the same file and just wonder if this amount of redirects is classed as spam or a bad thing to do in general.
If so, what other options do I have to get these pages out of Google’s system or shouldn’t I worry about them at all since I was reading somewhere that Google will eventually take pages it can’t find out of there system anyway.

seo-ireland
Nov 2nd 2005, 4:06 pm
Google shouldn't have a problem with the quantity of "301" permanent redirects. This is helping them after all.

Options to get pages out of the Google index are:
- Block the pages using robots.txt (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=50)
- Return a 404 header when the pages are accessed
- Add the meta tag: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> to the top of each page
- Stop linking to the pages within the site.

Eventually the pages should become supplemental results and sometime in the future disappear from the Google index.