We recently updated our site; the old one had about 300 pages ... the new one was about 80;)
This is because in the old structure we had many pages for each argument. Instead, we now have only one page with a "resume".
For example, the old structure of the argument "car":
- Home page, 'cars'
- subpage, "tires"
- subpage, "engines"
- auxiliary pages, 'accessories'
- etc...
Now we have only 1 page of 'cars', with everyone inside.
In fact, I redirect all the subpages to the main one, with a .htaccess 301 redirect:
Redirect 301 /cars-tires.php http://www.example.com/cars.php
Redirect 301 /cars-engines.php http://www.example.com/cars.php
Redirect 301 /cars-accessories.php http://www.example.com/cars.php
Thus, we have many different (even if the main topic is the same) pages pointing to one page.
, seo 404 ?