When to Keep, Cut, and Consolidate Your Content | Ep. #774

Episode #774

When to Keep, Cut, and Consolidate Your Content

September 13, 2018

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In episode #774, Eric and Neil discuss when it’s ok to prune your content. Tune in to hear if you should ever flush old content.

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[00:27] Today’s Topic: When to Keep, Cut, and Consolidate Your Content
[00:54] You may find that some of your content is outdated.
[01:22] Consolidate if you have five pages that discuss the same thing, combine them, because Google won’t know which one to rank first.
[02:15] Search engines want to eliminate redundancy.
[02:55] Removing old, outdated content can be a good idea, but often less content means less traffic.
[03:05] People who prune content, prune the quality content that won’t affect traffic.
[03:35] SuperMetrics or Screaming Frog are two great tools to use to crawl your website.
[03:45] If these tools find pages that aren’t getting any traffic at all, it might be a good idea to prune those pages.
[04:18] Use Google Analytics to look at your content that isn’t performing well.
[04:35] When you cut those pages, you may lose more traffic than is being shown by GA. Remember you may be cutting out internal links when deleting content!
[05:00] Before you cut, always try to improve the content.
[05:25] Cross link all your content, as it will help boost rankings for all of your pages.
[05:26] That’s all for today!
[05:30] Eric and Neil are going to do a live event if they reach 1 Million downloads per month. So, please rate of review!
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