Removing articles from Soapboxie without 404 notice

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 4 years ago

   It's something the site owner has to do, rather than an individual hubber. HubPages already has a solution in operation, as 404 notices damage a websites standing in search results. Although a 404 notice appears when a page is deleted, this is only temporary. After a few days an automatic redirect to the main menu page of the niche site is in place.

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      TessSchlesingerposted 4 years agoin reply to this

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         Beth Eaglescliffeposted 4 years agoin reply to this

         You can delete pages you no longer want on niche sites and HubPages via "author view". There's a delete button alongside the edit button. You don't need to notify the team of your intentions.

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            TessSchlesingerposted 4 years agoin reply to this

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               Beth Eaglescliffeposted 4 years agoin reply to this

               Ah, could be a glitch, in which case you should contact the team.
               
               By the way, is the notice you're seeing literally just the number 404 in the middle of the page, or is it showing the main menu page with a sentence at the top saying something like "the page you are looking for is no longer published"?
               
               If the latter, then the redirect is in place, all is well, and the site is not being penalized. If the former, then the tech team need to step in and clear the glitch.

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   Solarasposted 4 years ago

   In the past, if you did not update the article as requested, they removed it for you.

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      samanthacubbisonposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Hi! Just want to clarify that we don't actually remove articles completely—just from that network site (so back to HubPages). And that only happens if the author edit is necessary to keep the article on that network site.
      
      (Of course, this excludes banning, etc.)

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         TessSchlesingerposted 4 years agoin reply to this

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            samanthacubbisonposted 4 years agoin reply to this

            Once time runs out, the article will reappear in your editor's queue and then they will make a decision. If you want them removed sooner, you can do it manually.

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   Maffew Jamesposted 4 years ago

   A 404 error doesn't damage a website in ordinary conditions because it's expected for all websites to have them from time-to-time. If you redirect a deleted page to the homepage or another page that's completely different from the original page's content, Google has stated that it treats it the same as a 404 anyway. Website owners like to do these redirects either because they think it carries the page's ranking forward (it doesn't), or because they're hoping the users looking for that page will go on to browse the rest of the site instead.
   
   The only impact of the 404 on search results is for the specific page returning the 404 to eventually be removed from search engine indexes because it no longer exists and this is the intended process. Basically, don't worry about it.

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