The subject of eradicating or updating or blocking outdated content material from Google shouldn’t be new, and we lined it numerous occasions. I noticed John Mueller of Google remark about it once more, this time on Reddit, saying, it’s as much as you to determine which of your outdated content material is useful and helpful – it isn’t as much as Google to determine that.
John wrote, “There isn’t a higher / decrease phrase depend restrict or goal,” so it isn’t about phrase depend and he said this before. “So what’s helpful & useful content material is as much as you to determine,” John wrote.
Then he took his Google hat off (however is it ever off?) and wrote:
Personally, I discover distinctive information archives may be helpful, however I don’t know what content material you are taking a look at. You would additionally take a hybrid method and transfer them into an archive part, make the part noindex, and let folks nonetheless discover the content material by inside search (which additionally helps you to see in metrics if the content material is – on mixture – nonetheless thought of helpful by your common customers).
He added:
One thing may be helpful even when just a few folks learn it. Think about if Wikipedia deleted all articles that have been within the decrease percentile of views. (And equally, one thing may be ineffective even when lots of people learn it.)
Personally, I wish to maintain my outdated content material accessible and I’ve actually not up to date a lot of my outdated stuff through the years. It is sort of a museum for website positioning information. 🙂
Listed here are the earlier occasions we wrote about this subject (not less than those I wish to hyperlink to right here):
Discussion board dialogue at Reddit.
