301 Redirects Question

Hi,

What's the best SEO practice here?

I am moving an old domain to a new site. I have transferred the content over from the old site to the new site and added 301 redirects.

I have two questions

1) How long should I keep the old site live with the redirect? - I read about 1 year but I was thinking about 3 months/until the new site is ranking well to save money.

2) Do I unpublish the content with the 301 redirect? - I wasn't sure if keeping it live would cause some type of duplication issues with Google.
For keeping the old site live, 3 months seems a bit too short. A year is the safer bet, but 6 months is solid time frame for redirects to take place. As for the content you can unpublish it, having 301 redirect will tell search engines the new location, and having duplicate content is not helpful.
 
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