Recreate missing pages or just use 301 redirect?
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Hi, on the Competitive Comparison section of the "link analysis" page the top 5 sites are linking to pages on my site that no longer exist. I'm wondering if it is worthwhile to recreate these pages that no longer exist or if I should just use a 301 redirect to some page on my site that has related info. Thanks for your suggestions.
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It seems like these pages were gaining links for you so I would suggest recreating them to the best of your ability. Hopefully it will be high enough quality content again that people will continue to link to it. A 301 is great too but content that relates to something may not be what people will link to in the first place.
Either way it sounds like you know what you are doing SEO wise, but now just think what would be better for the reader.
Perhaps 301 them all now and create the pages as you have time? Good luck.
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