In my CMS there are some pages that are temporary unpublished and later re-published. From a SEO perspective which is the best way to handle them. Tell the search engines to remove them, or that they are temporary moved?
Not all pages are always republshed, in some case the status code returned will not be the best option, but I guess it makes more sense to handle in the right way the ones that are going to be re-publised than the ones that will never be.
Which status to return when a user or a search engine try to surf to this page? 302? 307? 404? Or which is the best way to handle this scenario?
Many thanks
Some suggest using a
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