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We are curious to know what the MOZ community thinks about our level of unique content on the following profile and if the community thinks we are currently at risk / susceptible for a Panda 4.2 Penalty. We have profiles on over 4,000 colleges (https://www.noodle.com/colleges/coUD/williams-college) some are more populated with content than others. We've already taken action to noindex several hundred thousand profile URLs (https://www.noodle.com/tutoring/tc2d9be/eye-level-center-of-tribeca) which currently publish less original content.

Curious how other major vertical search websites approach this problem (a la Glassdoor, Yelp, TripAdvisor, etc)

As always - the feedback from this community is priceless!!

We are in the process of detemining how to handle URLs that are completely removed from our website? Think of these as listings that have an expiration date (i.e. http://www.noodle.org/test-prep/tphU3/sat-group-course). What is the best practice for removing these listings (assuming not many people are linking to them externally).

• 301 to a general page (i.e. http://www.noodle.org/search/test-prep)
• Do nothing and leave them up but remove from the site map (as they are no longer useful from a user perspective)
• return a 404 or 410?