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Originally Posted by DavyMac
I've been at this too long now without a break and need a sanity check:
If I redirect with 301 many disabled product URLs to the same page will this constitute duplicate content?
Google has identified lots of legacy links to non-existent pages (error 404) and there are no appropriate product pages to link to, so for each I was going to 301 redirect in my .htaccess files to the closest fit page, which will result in many redirects to the same destination page.
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It is always best if the url doesn't change or isn't removed, but it won't be seen as duplicate content. Search engines would rather see many 301 redirects than many 404.