Removing Pages From Website

An Its SEO Effect

[dirkji]

I want to remove an old link directory from my site.

Is it ok to just delete the pages and remove all links to it? I don't want to redirect because there is no relevant page to redirect to.

[encyclo]

Sure, just delete the pages - just make sure that the server returns a "404 Not Found" or "410 Gone" response header for the page URLs once they have been deleted.

[dirkji]

Thanks for your answer Encyclo.

I forgot, but I have set the 404 page to redirect to my index page. Is that a good idea?

[jomaxx]

Having a custom 404 is better.