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The blog has little value, with almost no user traffic.

It will be redesigned in a subdomain on the site.

I am only concerned with crawlers/google crawlers etc..and being penalized for tons of missing pages by 404'ing

There is nothing linking to the blog

Note: Re-posting since I accidentally marked as answered

Hi,

I have a blog that has thousands of URL, the blog is a part of my site.

I would like to obsolete the blog, I think the best choices are

1. 404 Them:  Problem is a large number of 404's. I know this is Ok, but makes me hesitant.

2. meta tag no follow no index. This would be great, but the question is they are already indexed.

Thoughts?

Thanks

PS

A 301 redirect to the main page would be flagged as a soft 404

It is the same template but the content is not duplicate content, the content is driven by geographic area

I am almost positive, that using a 301 to the main page would be considered a soft 404 error

Hi,

I have about 60+ domains which are spread across a few different IP address's and a couple of Servers

The domains use the same template, which is modified per the specific domain

Out of the 60, a single domain attracts virtually no traffic. In google webmaster, there are no messages, nothing out of the order

The supporting blogs etc... for that domain are all fine.

Any idea why one domain does not perform, while the other 60 plug are successful?

Hi,

I have a blog that has thousands of URL, the blog is a part of my site.

I would like to obsolete the blog, I think the best choices are

1. 404 Them:  Problem is a large number of 404's. I know this is Ok, but makes me hesitant.

2. meta tag no follow no index. This would be great, but the question is they are already indexed.

Thoughts?

Thanks

Hi Adam,

Differences I am noticing are with the seomoz tool.

One example is the grade for the URL

The tool does not recognize credit for having street (lower case) in the URL if the keyword is Street

For the On-Site Optimization Grade

I get different results for keywords

For example

Street and St and street and st

All grade differently

How should one optimize their site for common interchangeable words?