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by JoshTriplett 4170 days ago
> Google Webmaster Tools is currently warning me that we have over 100 404s on various URLs, because those pages simply got removed completely.

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

> Actually most of those 100 are the same few pages

You could redirect them all to the canonical location for those pages.
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geofft 4170 days ago
It sounds like the content got removed completely, so there should not be a URL (either old or new) for that content.

It's true that they should have used 301s or rel=canonical or something in the past, but that also sounds like the least of their past problems, if I'm reading the parent comment right. Right now, I don't think they'd be much better off with 301s to a single URI that 410s instead of just directly serving 404s for everything, even though the 301 to a 410 is more right in some abstract sense.

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