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I have recently taken over the maintenance/redesign of our website and after setting up Moz I see many errors:
Duplicate content
Missing descriptions
Duplicate titles
etc.

All are related to blog categories and tags.

My questions are: are these errors hurting us? Should I simply remove tags/categories from the sitemaps or bite the bullet and create content for every single category page?

Our site is https://financiallysimple.com/ and we are using Yoast plugin in Wordpress  (if that helps)

We have 155 podcasts and in many we have affiliate links to Amazon. But I recently found out that one of the two products we are promoting is no longer available. I now have to fix many podcast descriptions.

My thought is maybe to build a link like: financiallysimple.com/camera and 301 it to the Amazon product.  That way if the product changes, I simply change where the 301 points. Simple.

BUT my question is does that bouncing people offsite immediately hurt us?

Are there any other options that will accomplish the same goal?
Thanks!

Our company has been purchased. As part of the rollup, our company name will change to theirs and our website will be removed with all web presence being a basic landing page.

I am looking for ideas on how to minizine the huge SEO losses we will have soon.

I plan to focus on local SEO starting with GMB. Any other tips or direction?

Roman,

Good info here... still studying to try to make sense of how the "boxer" example (with very similar products) translates to "taxes" or "retirement" where every article is (supposed to be) very different.

Thanks again.
John