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403 error for a member site

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Crunchii last edited by

Perhaps a stupid question but SEOmoz registers 403 errors for pages behind a membersite (ie. they are restricted on purpose).

Should I noindex these pages or just let SEOmoz register these "errors"?
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Crunchii @johncallaghan last edited by

Yeah that sounds like the easiest/best option.

Thank you for your answer John.
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johncallaghan last edited by

Block them in robots.txt, there's no value in them being crawled.
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