Wrong Page Ranking

[LCNetwork]

Higher-level page with more power getting pushed out by weaker page in the SERPs for an important keyword. I don't care about losing the weaker page.

Should I:

404 the weaker page and wait for Google to (hopefully) replace it with the stronger page?

301 the weaker page to the stronger page?

NOTE: Due to poor communication between content team and myself, the weak and strong pages have similar title tags (i.e, "lawsuits" and "litigation")

[Mr.Rangen]

Are both pages serving the same purpose?

I would NOT 404 it. I'm a firm believer in not deleting pages. If anything, it sounds like a job for the canonical tag to me.

[LCNetwork]

I tweaked the title tags and internal anchors to reflect the difference in content between the pages. They are about different things, they were just optimized for the same thing. Plus, I doubt either of them have any external links, so I don't ahve to worry about those anchors.

I'm hoping this helps. If not, canonical is certainly something I'll take under consideration.

Thanks!