Should I block temporary pages
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I need some SEO advice on an odd scenario:
We are launching a new product line (party supplies) on it's own domain (PartySuperCenter.com). Due to some internal/technical reasons we will not be able to launch the site until the summer. We already have the product in our warehouse so the owners want to created a section on our current site (CostumeSuperCenter.com) for the new products. Once the new site is up the product will be removed from our current site and moved to the new site.
I am concerned about the effect this will have on our SEO - having thousands of product pages appear and then disappear after a few months. I was thinking about blocking the pages using the "noindex" tag. Is this how you would handle it?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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let them get indexed. Google won't have a problem for you taking pages down on your site. They probably won't accrue much PR in a couple of months so you could probably just remove them and be fine and mass 301 them to the main product page
Even better create unique descriptions for them and keep them live and also put them up on your new site. Careful setting up multiple sites and interlinking or you can get penalized
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Hi,
Instead of blocking it, you can 301 redirect the pages on your costumesupercenter.com site to the partysupercenter.com site once it is up. You can start building up your links, traffic and get it index it first and once your site is up, 301 will transfer everything to the new site.
This may be a short answer, but hope it helps. Please let me know if you want me to elaborate.
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