Comments on: How to Combine Website Pages Without Affecting SEO http://www.buildrealestateresults.com/blog/how-to-combine-website-pages-without-affecting-seo.html by Kathleen Allardyce from BuildRealEstateResults.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:08:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathleen http://www.buildrealestateresults.com/blog/how-to-combine-website-pages-without-affecting-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-26728 Kathleen Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:33:06 +0000 http://www.buildrealestateresults.com/blog/?p=1657#comment-26728 Jim, If you delete pages that are showing up in searches, anyone who finds the page through a search and clicks on it will land on an error page on your website. It looks to me like the way your site is set up, you could "hide" the pages, but not delete them. That way, visitors would always land on a viable page. The other thing you can do is to instruct the search engines not to index the page. Over time, those pages will then fall out of the index and you can safely delete them. If you are using Google's Webmaster Tools, there is a URL removal tool you could use to help expedite the removal of pages. You can instruct the search engines to ignore a page on a Point2 website using the Page Name and Search Engine Information link on the page, and checking the No Index box. On the other hand, if your IDX pages are showing up in search results, that is another way people can land on your site. You might just want to leave those pages intact! Jim,

If you delete pages that are showing up in searches, anyone who finds the page through a search and clicks on it will land on an error page on your website.

It looks to me like the way your site is set up, you could “hide” the pages, but not delete them. That way, visitors would always land on a viable page.

The other thing you can do is to instruct the search engines not to index the page. Over time, those pages will then fall out of the index and you can safely delete them. If you are using Google’s Webmaster Tools, there is a URL removal tool you could use to help expedite the removal of pages.

You can instruct the search engines to ignore a page on a Point2 website using the Page Name and Search Engine Information link on the page, and checking the No Index box.

On the other hand, if your IDX pages are showing up in search results, that is another way people can land on your site. You might just want to leave those pages intact!

]]> By: Jim Gilbert http://www.buildrealestateresults.com/blog/how-to-combine-website-pages-without-affecting-seo.html/comment-page-1#comment-26726 Jim Gilbert Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:03:41 +0000 http://www.buildrealestateresults.com/blog/?p=1657#comment-26726 Kathleen, thank you for the response. I realize that the search engines do not read the IDX. But (some of) the home search pages are showing up in the searches because of page name ("___ homes for sale"), header name, some other information and links in the header itself. I moved one home search to the primary page last week, but did not delete the home search page. If I delete the pages, will this leave a dead link out there in SEO land? Jim BTW, the do follow link seems to work better with the www in it. Kathleen, thank you for the response. I realize that the search engines do not read the IDX. But (some of) the home search pages are showing up in the searches because of page name (“___ homes for sale”), header name, some other information and links in the header itself. I moved one home search to the primary page last week, but did not delete the home search page. If I delete the pages, will this leave a dead link out there in SEO land? Jim

BTW, the do follow link seems to work better with the www in it.

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