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Tnks a lot!!

How can I find that out?

most of them where old URLs pointed from a really old domain, that we have just shutten down. If the pages didn't receive any traffic, should we redirect? If I follow this https://moz.com/learn/seo/http-status-codes we shouldn't

Hi Sean,

Good answer, there are two problems though, if Moz can not get too accurate to report a problem at least they should warn that if hreflang is used properly the duplicate content issue doesn t apply. On the other hand when you go to Moz Learn, you dont mention anything about hreflangs. So, what you guess from your reports and documentation is that you should change your site.

Best,

Pablo

Hi Charles,

The pages are in the same language, but hreflang is not used only to differientiate languages, also for different regional versions of the same site, I ve been reading and reading about this, talked to people from Backazimuth, talked to people from Google and this should be fine. If you have two versions  for two different countries and you show the same layout and more or less the same content, hreflang should fix the duplicate content issue, since in this case there is no canonical version.

Bests,

PS: I said it´s rather old, since it doesn´t include information of hreflangs for example.

Pablo

Hi Jazom,

Errors are hard 404. I like what you say, but I would like to know if it would be better to erase indexed pages from index.

Bests,

Pablo López Carrara

Cinepapaya

Hi Russ,

Tnks, I like this kind of segmentation by inbound links and traffic, let me quote you

"Chances are, most of those pages neither receive traffic nor have inbound links. Go ahead and drop the 301 redirect for all of those" I think you mean (Im Argentine) I should use redirect for these URLs. which I dont think it make much sense since these are not the most valuable pages. I got your general idea, but let me know if you made I mistake when you wrote it.

I like what you said in general, but I wouldn´t like leaving 404 (even though they got no traffic or links) with out treating. So...questions...Meta no-index, does it work for already indexed pages? What do you think about using no-index + deleting these urls from index using webmaster tools.

Bests,

Pablo López Carrara

Cinepapaya

Dear All,

I work for a southamerican ecommerce, I would like to know if you can help me out with the following.

This site is full of 404, more than 45K, so we are doing 301 to corresponding pages. The development team is asking me if we could stop doing the 301 in some time...In order to do this search engines should index only the url we are redirecting to, and not the one that is redirecting to the new one.

Currently they are redirecting in the HTML no by htaccess, so this means they have one page for each URL that needs to be redirected, and this is not efficient.

Bests,

Pablo