Hi Buddies, We have created more than 50 pages based on london olympics, now the london olympics is over. So, we plan to remove the url from our website which of the following option is best to remove the urls are: Adding in robots.txt Google webmaster url removal request 301 redirection Any other option which should not impact our SERP. If you have any ideas, kindly let me know.
Hi, firstly using robots.txt is not an option as this is simply a request to a bot not to follow but does not enforce. My option of choice if you are using Apache based server is to simply drop in a suitable .htaccess file into the root dir structure containing your olympics material. Alternatively just change the virtual host entry to redirect to elsewhere in the site. Hope that helps.
Thanks for your reply buddies, but 301 redirection all the 50 pages to home page it would be cause any problem
Just curious, why remove it? It might bring some bits of traffic to your site which you can benefit from. I wouldn't delete or throw away 50 pages unless they were of really low quality. Also, having lots of quality pages on your domain only improves its authority. Big news sites never throw away their old articles.
Hi you can use 301 redirect is the best one to permanently redirect your pages.So that visitors can get better user experience of your website. You can use robot.txt only for future redirect purpose.