Moz Pro > Links > Top Pages: many are images, useful?

[GregB123]

My site is 10 years old, and has always ranked well for the variety of garden tools it sells.  Looking at our Moz Pro > Links > Top Pages report I see that many of the "pages" are actually image URLs. And many of those are images we do not even use anymore (though they are still hosted).

Question: As a way of gaining some link juice to deeper pages, what about 301 redirecting some of those old images over to appropriate pages? (example: redirecting old-weeding-hoe.jpg to the page garden-hoes.html)

Would it be worthwhile? Would it be safe?

Thanks for any and all input!

[Roman-Delcarmen]

First of all, based on my 10 years of experience working on technology, you don't fix what isn't broken. You can add some redirects to your internal pages in order to improve your internal links (improve your site structure) but there are better options to improve your site structure.

Also, keep in mind the numbers, I mean if you create a few redirections (less than 100) and you have 10000 internal pages, even if you made a mistake, will not have a big impact on your site

But if you have 200 internal pages and add 100 redirections, well, in that case, you will need to make sure of what are you doing. In the past, I had a bad experience adding redirections without a deep understanding of what I was doing.

[GregB123]

Thanks Roman. I am good with doing redirects, and it is not many pages, so making coding mistakes that cause chaos is not really the issue (though it is always good to avoid).

My question is really about using some of the "link juice" being directed to useless outdated images to improve the ranking of some deep but related pages on our site.