I have a similar question, but there is a difference. I have 18 pages on my site that I consider obsolete and I want to simply eliminate them and not replace them with anything.

But even though they haven't been updated or linked to other pages on my site for over 60 days they still get traffic from search engines. These 18 pages all still have a PR4 while newer, more important pages are PR0 and are getting more traffic.

Would a redirect 301 to a replacement page that has content NOTHING LIKE the old page (but is good content) be penalized? Why not a meta tag forward with no delay to index.htm, since the old content is not replaced at all but I'd like the visitor to see the site and not get a 404 error?

I've posted a notice on those pages that they will be eliminated on 10/5/04 but I'm sure the SE's will continue sending people there after that.

Andi

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