Managing 404 error pages with noindex and url rewrite
- by ZenMaster
Currently I use custom 404 error pages, having the following meta on them :
<meta content="noindex" name="robots">
My guess is this way Google will remove deleted pages faster from the index, anyone has experienced a case where it does ?
Also, is it better to have the url path rewritten to the actual error page, like the url pattern:…