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Posted by Tedd on 10/11/06 18:43
On 11 Oct 2006 09:57:12 -0700, Kentor wrote...
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>Hello,
>how can I tell search engines when pages have been removed....
>Lets say an apartment has been listed and appears this way in the url:
>www.mysite.com/details.php?post=123 ..... once the apartment has been
>rented and the owner removes his listing this page will appear but will
>say that the postid does not exist anymore... but if there are a few
>apartments that have been removed and search engines crawl all of them
>they will see it as duplicate content which will give me a penalty...
>how should this be taken care of? Would a 301 redirect to the index
>page be the best solution or maybe create a personalized error document
>not found page for my website and tell search engines about it and that
>would have a link to the home page? or... ? :)
>
Similar to what Steve said, you're better off managing the message than trying
to control what the search engines are doing. Since you'd have a $_GET['post']
variable available when the page is accessed, you can add a condition to your
PHP to print a specific message or maybe redirect them to another page/message.
Tedd
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