Duplicate content report - question on best practice
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Hello all, New to MOZ Pro and SEO - so lots to get my head round!
I’m working through the Duplicate Content section of the Crawl report and am not sure what the best practice is for my situation.
Background: We are a reference guide for luxury hotels around the world, but the hotels that are featured on the site vary year on year.
When we add a new hotel page, it sets up the url as ourwebsite.com/continent/country/regionORcity/hotel.
When the hotels come off, I redirect their URL to the country or region where we have other hotels.
Example: http://www.johansens.com/europe/switzerland/zermatt/
The hotel in Zermatt has come off the site, showing 0 results on this landing page.
Question: My duplicate content report is showing a number of these regional pages that are displaying the copy “0 places - Region’ because the hotel has come off, but the landing page is still live.
Should I redirect the regional page back to the main country page? And then if I add a new hotel to the site from that region in the future, simply remove the redirect?
Should I also delete the page?
Any tips would be much appreciated!
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