: How to remove a page from site without affecting google serp I have a travel website. Just for information purposes, I had put a weather page. Now I realize that this page is increasing my

@Bryan171

You could just add a metatag to indicate to serach engines not to index it, without removing it:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />


This way you can keep the page, which can be relevant to your on-site users (I think it's a handy feature, I'd like to know the weather where I'm going), and still tell SE's not to index it, without getting any penalty.

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@Bryan171

For this kind of site, it can be considered as a little bit weird to display the weather because it's kind of off-topic. That's why, I understand your concern and if I were you, I would also get rid of this page.

Here the process I would follow:


Removing the page (a 404 HTTP status is sent for this page)
Redirecting users to a specific 404 page (to encourage visitors to navigate to other pages by introducing for example the best parts of your site...)


This weather page will disappear from index of search engines (of course Google included) and it most probably not hurt SEO of your site. And you maybe don't lose all these 21% of visitors.

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