Deleted pages still in Google: 301, 410 or wait?
You deleted a page, but Google still shows it. Here is how to choose between a 301 to a matching page and a 410, and why the home page is the wrong target.
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You deleted a page, but Google still shows it. Here is how to choose between a 301 to a matching page and a 410, and why the home page is the wrong target.
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GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot and co.: how to control AI crawlers with robots.txt without losing AI visibility. And why llms.txt can wait.
Identical titles and meta descriptions make your pages hard to tell apart. Learn how to check for a template error or real duplicate content.