403 error for a member site
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Perhaps a stupid question but SEOmoz registers 403 errors for pages behind a membersite (ie. they are restricted on purpose).
Should I noindex these pages or just let SEOmoz register these "errors"?
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Yeah that sounds like the easiest/best option.
Thank you for your answer John.
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Block them in robots.txt, there's no value in them being crawled.
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