Should old pages that have being 301 redirected but have no/mimimal traffic be deleted?

[LinckB]

In other words, I have pages from years ago that are redirected but how can I tell if traffic still flows through them? And if there is no or minimal traffic should the 301 be deleted?

Linck

[LinckB]

Nick,

Thanks a lot for your advice. I will leave them in place and live with the clutter. Thanks again!

Linck

[NBGnetworks]

Hi Linck,

There's really no good reason to delete a 301 in my opinion.  I've deleted them in the past for the same reason and you'll get crawl errors in google and other engines.  Are the 301'd pages still indexed in the search engines.  Do they show up in google webmaster tools reports for crawled pages?  Even if they don't there's really no reason besides minimizing clutter to delete a 301.  A 301 redirect is a "permanently moved" but if somebody is still hitting the old page you'd want them to know that your content has moved, obviously.  Here's quick video from google if you're interested on 301's. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

Good luck,

-Nick