Site migration 301's list on Apache server - when do I take the old migrated URLs off our 301 list?

[eLab_London]

Howdy!

The site was migrated last year to a new platform, therefore the URLs were migrated over using 301 redirect rules.

Since then, the server has a huuuuge list of rules for URLs and I wanted to know when can we start taking these off of the list? And, how can I test to see if they are still indexing, do I simply just add the url to the google search bar?

Thanks Guys!

Kay

[OrioleOriole3456]

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[TheeDigital]

I would never remove them. If you are afraid your file is too large then have your developer test how long it's taking to process the file. If this number is unacceptable, consider moving the redirects to the server config file so that they are only loaded during the server startup and not each time a page is processed.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

While I am definitely interested to see how the community answers the removal of rules on the redirect file, I wanted to offer a couple of ideas.

I would pull a list of old URL backlinks from:
Search Console
Majestic
Ahrefs OSE

I would see if you have any links pointing to old URLs that could be updated to the new URLs, that way you don't lose those links from your actions on the redirect file. There may be links you'd want to remove or disavow as well.

And yes, you could search to see if these URLs are still being indexed by searching them. You could look into the Removal-Tool from Google, but I would use that with caution.

I will back out now for the answer to removing rules from your file, since I am really not sure there.

Hope this helps a bit! Good luck!