How to delete active/published pages safely?

[BeamaLifeInsurance]

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[danatanseo]

Hi BeamaLife,

It looks like one of these pages has a bonafide inbound link and, as a result is appearing to be a bit more important than the other two. Look at them here:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates.html&comparisons%5B0%5D=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Falabama-life-insurance.html&comparisons%5B1%5D=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Ftexas-life-insurance.html&=Compare

I went to your site and found the main category page you were talking about: http://www.beamalifeinsurance.com/states.html

I assume that since you are thinking about deleting this category page, you would also be deleting all of the individual subcategory pages for states that live on that page. This made me curious to look at the page authority and inbound links of some of the other state's pages like California, New York and Texas (especially because they are such big states population wise).

Here's what that looked like in OSE:

http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/comparisons?site=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Fnew-york-life-insurance.html&comparisons%5B0%5D=www.beamalifeinsurance.com%2Fstates%2Fcalifornia-life-insurance.html&=Compare

I think I would keep them if I were you. They each have some inbound links and very decent page authority and  MozRank, expecially considering where they are in your structure. My vote - Keep them. Maybe you could find some creative ways to use your internal linking structure to make more out of the authority these pages do have?

Hope that's helpful!

Dana