: How to tell Google my content will expire after a certain period? Right now I'm facing issues with 404 (Not Found) errors, because my content will deleted automatically after two months. I cannot

@Eichhorn148

There is a meta tag called unavailable_after, which will allow you to tell Google that a page should expire from the search results at a specific date and time.

e.g:

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="unavailable_after: 25-Aug-2007 15:00:00 EST">


The tag should be added within the section of the pages source code.

This information is treated as a removal request: it will take about a day after the removal date passes for the page to disappear from the search results. Google currently only support unavailable_after for web search results.

You can see a recent video where Google's head of webspam, Matt Cutts, suggests using this on ecommerce sites that have many pages that will often only last a few days.

(Skip to 2.20 for this advice)

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