Deleting 301 Redirect URLs from the CMS

[JMSCC]

Hi Everyone,

Would there be a negative SEO effect from deleting pages with 301 redirects in your CMS? Does anyone know of an average time of authority transfer from a redirect?

Thanks,
Jon

[KevinBudzynski]

I guess why are you considering to do this? If any external sites are linking to those specific landing pages, and the 301 was removed, they would receive a 404.

[JMSCC]

I'm not removing the 301 per say, I'm deleting the page completely from our Content Managment System. I probably will have to test to see the actual result.

[KevinBudzynski]

If the pages you are deleting do not have a related page, you can just 410 them out. So if a 301 pointed to these pages, you can safely delete these redirects. Should be no SEO issues with minor 4xx's.