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    • Crunchii
      Crunchii last edited by

      Perhaps a stupid question but SEOmoz registers 403 errors for pages behind a membersite (ie. they are restricted on purpose).

      Should I noindex these pages or just let SEOmoz register these "errors"?

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      • johncallaghan
        johncallaghan last edited by

        Block them in robots.txt, there's no value in them being crawled.

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        • Crunchii
          Crunchii @johncallaghan last edited by

          Yeah that sounds like the easiest/best option.

          Thank you for your answer John.

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