Originally Posted by
IBJoel
SEO does not work that way, unfortunately. You can get actively penalized for certain things (that are frequently opaque)
If the trending page is hurting your SEO (and I fail to see what rule such a page would violate, at least on the Google side of things), what would be the issue with a link to the old trending page and just exclude it from crawlers?
Just seems like killing a mosquito with a nuclear warhead type of solution.