Help needed on what to do with deleti
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Hi, i need some help as i am lost on what exactly the best to do. My website http://goo.gl/KxN8X6 I want to delete my community http://goo.gl/SbY39r which is giving me a nightmare when it comes to seo friendly. The /community has too many errors with seo and I think is harming the site growth. Now I want to delete it but if i delete it I am going to get a lot of 404 errors. So I was thinking to first add a Noindex and nofollow to it and in a month delete it. Could you please let me know if this is a good strategy? or if you can suggest something better. I really don't want the community. Thank you for your help.
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You could always redirect the whole sub-directory of the community pages to what ever page you want using 301's. So after you've deleted the community section and someone were to go to any page with /community/ in it would redirect to your home page or any other page you wish. Means you wont get any 404 errors.
Example if you wanted to redirect the /community/ pages to the root you would use the following code in your .htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^community/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Your'll need access to your .htaccess file and more instructions on how to do the 301's are here - http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/
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