Using 301 Redirects - What To Do With The Old Content?

[robbie007]

Maybe a silly question....

 

What to do with old content when using 301 redirects?

 

 

mydomain.com/abc.html -----> mydomain.com/def.html

 

 

Do you still have to host the old content? I would say yes from a SEO perspective (old content has rankings and need to give juice to new content), but no from a normal perspective (saving server space + permanent redirect).

 

Need some good response,

Thanks

[robbie007]

Just read a short discussion on SEOMOZ, they say you have to delete te old content. Anybody against??

 

http://www.seomoz.org/q/after-the-301-redirect

[Dh42]

Why would you redirect if you still have the content?

[robbie007]

Clean URL's and some little changes here and there.