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Hi

We have a listing website that has a huge amount of listings.These listings are changing all time, they become passive or deleted.

We would like to choose the response code for the passive for deleted pages. Which response type must we use ?

• Redirect to last category with 301

• Give 410 Gone response code

• Give 404 Response code

which option would we choose ? and any ideas ?

I think canonicalization is the best option for your case. Make http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/ny/New-York-City/Maps/Manhattan-Apartment-Sales-Map?zoom=2&x=0.518&y=0.3965 canonical tag as http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/ny/New-York-City/Maps/Manhattan-Apartment-Sales-Map. Then google wil show http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/ny/New-York-City/Maps/Manhattan-Apartment-Sales-Map in search results and problem will be solved.

Google will still count backlinks for those url's but if you choose nourl google will not index them again.

If you use canonical tag, all incoming links' juice ,related to that page, collected by main page.

Hi

I have a website what has parameter URL. For example

www.example.com/index.php?page_id=1&no=2

I want that search engine see my page URL as;

www.example.com/toys/cars

But this URL is not exist in my website. And when i externally enter this page it goes to 404 page.

If i add canonical url as www.example.com/toys/cars to the page www.example.com/index.php?page_id=1&no=2, what happened ? Is the url at the serp change as www.example.com/toys/cars ?