Deleting Pages

[gayne]

I realise this is probably another less than basic question and apologise in advance.
I have recently restructured my site following good advice from my forum friends and google has now indexed all of my new pages so I am ready to delete the old pages from the server. Will the removed pages automatically return a status of either 404 (not found) or 410 (gone) in the header, as required by Google?

[Arthur]

As long as you don't override it (looks like you haven't), the default behavior of the web server is to issue a 404 Not Found when it gets a request for a page (or image, or whatever) that doesn't exist.

-Arthur

[gayne]

As long as you don't override it (looks like you haven't), the default behavior of the web server is to issue a 404 Not Found when it gets a request for a page (or image, or whatever) that doesn't exist.

-Arthur

Thanks Arthur,
thought that was the case, not sure quite why Google make it sound like a big deal. I will go ahead and remove the old pages.:dopey: