Too many 301s?

[pauledwards]

Thanks highland.

[pauledwards]

Also last one, if i wanted to revive the 301s say in a year i would be allowed to and the pages would index again?

[AdiRste]

Yes but I wouldn't really recommend this.

[pauledwards]

Ok, i probably wont but in what istance would you not recommend this?

I understand pa and pr etc will be back to nothing but its the keyword url i might want to use from scratch

[AlanMosley]

I would see if they had links, and get rid of the rest, it may look to Bing that you are trying to be tricky. Its not natural

[AdiRste]

Bringing back URL's that you didn't want and then decide that you do want is pretty annoying to Google...

[pauledwards]

But you can do it, yes?

[AdiRste]

Ha, yes you can my friend.

[Thos003]

How are these pages generating traffic? Are they being found in the search engine?

The real question, do these pages have links to them?

There is little value to a 301 redirect if you are not moving link traffic in the direction you are pointing. If you are out ranking the original content, then perhaps a 301 could help. How well does the original content rank?

[firstconversion]

If they had links, I would 301 the pages with links. Everything else I would 404

[johnshearer]

Great insight Highland!!!