Multiple 301 Redirect Query

[PeteC12]

Hello all,

I have 2 301 redirects on my some of my landing pages and wondering if this will cause me serious issues.

I first did 301 directs across the whole website as we redid our url structure a couple of months ago.

We also has location specific landing pages on our categories but due to thin/duplicate content , we have got rid of these by doing 301's back to the main category pages. We do have physical branches at these locations but given that we didnt get much traffic for those specific categories at those locations and the fact that we cannot write thousands of pages of unique content content , we did 301's.

Is this going to cause me issues. I would have thought that 301's drop out of serps ? so is this is an issue than it would only be a temporary one ?.. Or should I have 404'd the location category pages instead.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

thanks

Peter

[PeteC12]

Many thanks Phillip

Pete

[zeepartner]

Hi Peter

I think you should be fine. Redirecting old URLs that no longer exist is a best practice and helpful for users. Of course, those 301'd URLs should drop out of Google's index after a while. But this should be okay. You only want URLs to appear in SERPs that actually do have content.