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wow, fantastic. Very helpful - really appreciate it!

Donnie, I agree. However, we had the same problem on a website and here's what we did the canonical tag: Over a period of 3-4 weeks, all those print pages disappeared from the SERP. Now if I take a print URL and do a cache: for that page, it shows me the web version of that page. So yes, I agree the question was about blocking the pages from getting indexed. There's no real recipe here, it's about getting the right solution. Before canonical tag, robots.txt was the only solution. But now with canonical there (provided one has the time and resources available to implement it vs adding one line of text to robots.txt), you can technically 301 the pages and not have to stop/restrict the spiders from crawling them. Absolutely no offence to your solution in any way. Both are indeed workable solutions. The best part is that your robots.txt solution takes 30 seconds to implement since you provided the actually disallow code :), so it's better.

Hi Angie, I am using Helicon ISAPI Redirect for our redirects. Here is a simple example of the redirect synatx: RewriteRule ^policies/return_policy/ /shop/returns/ [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^policies/ / [R=301,L] I would LOVE a way to save some of these incoming links: learn/tutorials/how-to-cur Thanks for the help!

Thanks, that is good to know that there is at least some benefit for these. I'm going to do it.

Use the SEOmoz crawl report. Let Roger loose on your site, then when the report is available, filter the excel file on the broken link field. Then check the "referrer" field for each broken link. The referrer field will show the page where the broken link was discovered. You can then use the SEOmoz bar to highlight the links on a page. Sometimes a link isn't obvious as it is hidden. In those cases you can always right-click on the page and choose View Page Source from the options, then search for the link.

Thanks Dejan, Yes I am referring to an exact match. I would really like to read that post if anyone can find it.