Webpage Redirection

I am updating a website with a decent Google search status (comes up very often) and many pages are being removed.

I know that I can use redirects to preserve Google searches. However, I was recently told that if Google sees that there is no content on the redirect page, it will remove it from the search, thus decreasing the websites search status.

I guess my question is, will redirects preserve the sites Google search identity or will it remove the great search results? Are the many factors that might influence whether this is the case?

Thanks!

#478539

Instead of using redirect pages, use .htaccess redirects. These hard redirects will be detected and accounted for by Google.

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