Manipulative Site Spam - Ideas to Fix?
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Hey,
We have been asked to fix up a website which has been poorly optimised with manipulative techniques.
The company is a local service based business, and the old SEO company created thousands of 'pages' with a list of locations & services.
**Examples - **
domain.com.au/suburb1/service1
domain.com.au/suburb1/service2
etc
domain.com.au/suburb2/service1
domain.com.au/suburb2/service2
These pages dont actually exists and appear to 301 redirect back to domain.com.au/service1 (this is a real page with real content). The problem is that all of the above mentioned non-existent pages are actually all indexed.
Problem: How do I remove a page from the index that doesnt actually exist but has been 301d?
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Thanks for your response.
Make a way for Google to crawl the 301 pages and they should drop out naturally.
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There's the manual request in Web Master Tools.
Though that they're indexed and not the 301 of the page seems odd. Make sure there is a crawlable link to each page somewhere in your site, perhaps even make sure they are still in your sitemap, and not blocked by robots.txt. That should allow google to re-crawl the pages and realise they have been 301.
Also check how the 301 is implimented. Make sure theres not some kind of masking that is redirecting users and not google. Also make sure it is a 301 and not a 302.
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