How long should I keep redirects?

[Nickki]

I had my website created by dreamweaver so every page was .html and have now updated it to php eccommerce software. I set up the new website around 8 months ago and created 301 redirects on all the old dreamweaver pages. I have been updating my SEO and found that google thinks I am clocking (???) and I think this could be related to the old html pages. How long should I keep these redirects on my server? I have a pagerank of 4 so don't want to remove the redirects too soon and cause a loss of rank or customers etc.

Any advice appreciated.

 

[fisicx]

Keep them until google has dropped the old html pages from the index.

Not sure what you mean by pagerank of 4. Pagerank scores were binned by google years ago.

 

[Beepud]

hahaha had no idea they dropped page ranks and was quite proud I still had a 4!

How can I tell when google has dropped the old pages?

Thanks for your reply

 

[fisicx]

Search for your doman name and look at the urls of the results. If they are for the new pages it means google has updated the index

 

[webprojectuk]

As far as I know it makes no difference how long you keep them. In fact I have tested SEO benefits by buying domains and redirecting the link juice to my main site and it works a little. But will not make a massive difference. So, my answer is to keep them...

You might want to read this article by Moz: https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection