How to handle posts the expire?

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Hello, Long time lurker here.

Iv been reading the forums a lot and trying to take in as much information as i can. However, i do not think something like this has been covered.

I'm creating a wordpress site with a custom post type where people can list jobs that expire after 30 days. How should i handle this; as those links will give a 404 after 30 days and to not have google penalize my site in ranking. Is there a way to tell google to ignore those post types? Or does it even matter?

Thanks in advance for the advice.
 
No it doesn't Matter from my point..

Between, Those Links are either do-follow or No-follow ?
 
Hello, Long time lurker here.

Iv been reading the forums a lot and trying to take in as much information as i can. However, i do not think something like this has been covered.

I'm creating a wordpress site with a custom post type where people can list jobs that expire after 30 days. How should i handle this; as those links will give a 404 after 30 days and to not have google penalize my site in ranking. Is there a way to tell google to ignore those post types? Or does it even matter?

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Yes it will matter because you do not want Google following a bunch of broken links to your site. At some point you will have more broken pages than working pages and that is not something you find on a quality site.

I would create a specific page that says "that job is no longer available" or something like that and then 301 the expired urls to it. You could just 301 them to your main page but then any visitors would be confused about why they ended up on the main page rather than where they thought they were going.
 
What I did was if 'jobs' echo content noindex follow, then after post expires I have a 301 to Sorry, listing is no longer available. Does this work as a good solution?
 
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