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What we decided to do was a process for each deletion along with setting up a 301 redirect for any missing or incorrect bio to our Bio's home page.

First, we will remove the bio from the XML sitemap and resubmit the sitemaps.

Second, we wait a couple of days then delete the actual bio page from our site.

So far this seems to be going alright.

I would rather delete the page, but I just hate having Google/Bing seeing 404s for a while.  I would redirect but don't want to duplicate content pages.

What is the best SEO practice for deleting pages?  We have a section in our website with Employee bios, and when the employee leaves we need to remove their page.

How should we do this?