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Another amazing easy to understand and clear answer. Thank you Dirk!

As we are considering not offering spring bulbs at all anymore, I just leave it to a 404 page.

Thanks again!

We just removed an entire product category on our website, (product pages still exist, but will be removed soon as well)

Should we be setting up re-directs, or can we simply delete this category and product 
pages and do nothing?

We just received this in Google Webmasters tools: Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that return a 404 (Page Not Found) error.

We have not updated the sitemap yet...Would this be enough to do or should we do more?

You can view our website here: http://tinyurl.com/6la8

We removed the entire "Spring Planted Category"

In our webmasters tools, I do see many duplicated page issues...What would be an easy fix?

Would we lose all the existing URL's?

Also Rene, perhaps inappropriate to ask in this Q and A section, but do you also offer

offer services to fix these issues for companies? Often I get great advise, but wouldnt

know where to start implementing it, and our web developer is great, but not very

SEO knowledgeable...

website is http://tinyurl.com/lbldnba

Dear Rene,

Thank you for responding.

I did not see Search Engine Optimization listed under: System => Configuration => Catalog => Search Engine Optimization?

However, I was able to go to the sidewide settings shown in your screenshot. 
My "Title Prefix" and "Title Suffix" and "Default Description" are empty right now.

Do you recommend putting in a default description?

We see our pages coming up in Google with the category page/product numbers in front of our descriptions. For example: Items 1 - 24 of 86 (and than the descriptions follows).

Our website is magento based. Is there a fix for this that anyone knows of?

Is there method of stopping Google from adding this on to the front of our Meta Description?