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I have a client with many product-specific SEO pages focused on different car brands. These are old pages that haven’t been maintained or updated since their creation. Now, we’re redesigning those pages with new design and content, and the URLs will change slightly.
I’ve noticed that these pages have a noindex meta tag, likely added by a previous developer. Since we plan to use these pages as alternative landing pages, I’ll obviously remove the meta tag.
My question is, should I 301 redirect the old URLs to the new ones, or can I simply let those old URLs return a 404, considering they are not indexed by search engines?