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Do you have a robot.txt file? If so, you can use it to route spiders on your pages.
If it’s Mambo/Joomla, then you are safe unpublishing them. It is a database search with a publish/unpublish flag. The page is auto-generated php, so the page will never exist if it is unpublished, so it cannot be read by SE’s.
But if such page is already indexed by SEs then it will stay in their database. If it will generate 404 not found header (when unpublished) then you’ll have a lot of 404s pages and that’s not good for your site.
That is taken care of in most CMS’s, I believe. It will at least take you to a page. But – yes, the unpublished would be listed for a while in the SE.
Here is some food for thought, though……
I got really good rankings with Mambo with SEF (Search Engine Friendly URLS), but when I changed over to a website (all custom) I got more traffic and exposure. PLUS – more control over my content. I don’t use CMS’ anylonger. I write my own always.
If you implement 301 redirects you won´t get 404s. Once a page is unpublished just add it to your redirects and point it to your homepage for instance.
Goldfinger wrote:If you implement 301 redirects you won´t get 404s. Once a page is unpublished just add it to your redirects and point it to your homepage for instance.Very Nice!
