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Lets say you have an old "analysis" or maybe a "news story". Is it bad to leave them up if they are getting low page views?
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The 18 pages in question are huge alphabetical lists of links, with 600-800 links on each page. I'm not updating the lists so link-rot is setting in and what is worse they seem to be bot-magnets and attract many that don't have any connection to search engines or do any good for my site, yet they repeatedly return and waste bandwidth sometimes downloading the same pages several times a day. I'm not sure what their purpose is but it is not the service I had intended to provide when I created the pages. I have banned many but it seems better just to remove the pages.
Using these same old URLs for new content is a good possibility. The
PR would probably maintain though it would not take long for the Google index to reflect the new content.
I have not had much experience with mod_rewrite, but what I have is not good, it seems very difficult.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions.
Andi