Is a lot more redirect 301's pages than the number of live site pages good?

  • In Google Webmaster Tools I have under the improve HTML section a lot of duplicate meta descriptions and title tags now showing.
    This is because I recently changed my page sub addresses to improve navigation and page catorgories.
    So the old pages that are no longer live can still be picked up by Google hence the duplicate meta descriptions etc.
    To cure this is it okay with google to simply redirect 301 all those old pages to their new live pages, even though that means I have a lot more redirect 301 page than live pages?

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  • Not sure myself, but here is a good source.

    Thread Starter leecar

    (@leecar)

    Thank you Denise,
    That Cutts video does now explain the issue well.
    Had also a good look at your site, which I really liked.
    I see you write a lot of online material.
    I have another issue you may know the answer too.
    Is adding your URL link to a press article, guess blog or article spammy without a nofollow?

    John Mueller of Google recently stated not to add your URL link to a press article, guess blog or article without a nofollow.
    The example was link that would be a anchor text of a phrase for the subject of the article text going to a similar subpage subject of your site. For example the text is about capped rate mortgages, with an anchor text “capped rate” linking to https://www.example.com/capped-rate-mortgages. Google regards this as an advert so a nofollow must be added.

    But is it ok to follow the link if the anchor text says my company brand name instead so “example brand name” link to the index page https://www.example.com?

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