What factors matters the most when using a 301 permanent redirect?

[Ideas-Money-Art]

Hi SEOmozzers,

I have a client that has couple of duplicates but I am debating if i should just kill those pages or use 301 Permanent redirects. I know SEO moz provides 2 important factors to look at which are PA and link root domain.

1.Which one matters the most? or which one should I look at first to make a decision?

2. I have empty pages creating duplicate content with a PA of 14  and 1 linking root domain. my thought is to kill the page by inserting a meta NO INDEX. If you don't agree and think I should 301 to an existing page that needs link juice, let me know.

Thank you mozzers

[BenFox]

You might want to check that the linking root domain isn't just the domain the page is hosted on. If it is then it's probably worth just removing the extra page altogether.

The best solution if not would probably be a rel=canonical tag rather than a 301. This means you won't be increasing page load times and it's fairly easy to implement too.