Removed Directory-what to tell Google

.htaccess removing entire folder

[mycreditgroup]

Got excellent advice from JDMorgan yesterday, so we'll try another one.

We just had a new site built. During the construction, our web designer set up a "test" folder on our server to build it on.

example: www mysite.com/newsite-staging/

Within that folder he had our entire site structure. Well, google found that folder which is now gone since we launched, and is now reporting: "26 unreachable URL's"

What message do I tell google in our .htaccess?

I'm assuming 301?

Thanks again

[janharders]

if you want to let google know that the old content is now living under another url, yes, 301 would be appropriate and clean.
if you just want those results to vanish from google, 410 might be faster.