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How to hide a page on a Dealer.com website: plan before publishing
A safer way to think about hiding, unpublishing, or redirecting a Dealer.com page without accidentally losing useful search traffic.
Quick answer
Before hiding a page, decide whether it should be unavailable to visitors, removed from navigation, protected from search engines, or permanently redirected. These are different actions with different search and customer effects.
A simple way to approach it
- 01
List the page URL, its purpose, and where visitors currently reach it.
- 02
Choose the least disruptive option: navigation change, noindex, unpublish, or a relevant redirect.
- 03
Check links, forms, analytics, and search status after the change.
Good to know
- Dealer.com permissions and labels vary by account and change over time.
- Do not redirect every retired page to the home page.
- Keep a record of the old URL and the decision made for it.