Is it necessary to Remove 301 redirects from Wordpress after removing the 404 url from Google Webmaster?

[SangeetaC]

There were many 404 urls in my site found by Google Webmaster. I've redirected these urls to the relevant urls with 301 redirect in wordpress. After that I removed these 404 urls from Google Index through Webmaster.  "Should I cleanup these 301 redirects from Wordpress or not? ".

Help Needed.

[danwebman]

No I'd leave them in as there may be other Indexes that link to them or even blogs, sites or even somebody may have sent an email with the original link in.

301 doesn't hurt your ranking and would continue to deliver those 404 results for you.

[JCurrier]

Have you gone through your site to make sure that there are no longer any links to the old 404 pages? You probably don't need to worry about external links pointing in, since those pages are now redirecting, but I think it would be best practice to correct all of your internal links.