: Pros/cons of keeping expired job content At the moment in my job site expired jobs redirect 301 to a deleted-page. This prunes expired content and also causes less web clutter. But I've seen

@Kaufman445

If you want to keep them just simple write a user friendly message i.e. Job has been closed. See here for related jobs. And if you are running some adsense then do it otherwise delete that page and redirect to the category page.

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@Lengel546

You should remove pages if they are not of any use for visitors. If visitors come to your page through Google search results and realize it is outdated, they just spend a few seconds on your site, maybe even disappointed with your brand/site and then go back to Google and search on.
I am pretty sure that Google is intelligent enough to figure which of their search results are useless for their users by tracking what they do after clicking a result.

Also, you should not 301 in that case. Only 301 if there is a real replacement for the content, the status actually says "the page content still exists, however it is somewhere else".

So, best bet in my opinion, for you, for Google and their users is: return a 410 status code to indicate that the page is permanently removed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#410

Indicates that the resource requested is no longer available and will not be available again.

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