301 Redirects Should Be Forever

A couple of months ago on one of my sites I took out a couple of 301 redirects that I’d had in place for about a year and half. No real reason to do it, just seemed tidy.

Suddenly Google and Yahoo were both looking for the original pages on another site. Including Computer Toaster, which for a long time was just a subsection of another site.

Probably old links on other sites.

Once you do a 301 you should probably never remove it unless no one has ever linked to your prior pages.

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