how to deal with dupicate sites in MSN

MSN SEO, duplicates sites

[johnlim9988]

Before have severl sites have duplicate contents, now decide to concentrate at one site only.

How to remove the duplicate sites at MSN?

Does MSN have a remove tool to remove indexed page like google?

Thanks.

[Fish_Texas]

One way would be to put noindex/nofollow in your meta tags of your unwanted site/sites. The noindex site would slowly disappear out of the serps.
MSN Algo is so finicky right now, I wouldn't do it any other way than suggested above. You might lose ALL your sites.
Fish Texas

[Quadrille]

Just follow the 301 redirect rules, and wait patiently. Be sure to have a working 404 page, too.

[johnlim9988]

how about at robots.txt to ban all the spiders?

[Quadrille]

You want to the spiders to follow the content to the new site, don't you?

Anyway, robots.txt is not much help for sites that already have incoming links.

Much better to do the job properly!

[johnlim9988]

As I don't want the spiders to crawl the duplicate sites (excpet the main site, sure I want the spiders to crawl the main site!)

[Quadrille]

But you said you were closing the other sites.

So you want the spiders to see that they are gone, and to be told where they need to go (ie the new site).

Re-read your first post - you seem to be changing the story!

[johnlim9988]

Hi,

is the following correct robots.txt to ban msnbot and yahoo slurp, can put two robots at one line? As this duplciated site still have some google traffic so we decide to ban msn and yahoo.

*****************************************
User-agent: msnbot, Slurp
Disallow: /
*****************************************

Thanks,

[Quadrille]

You asked the same question here [webmasterworld.com].

No - but see the other thread for rationale.