The subject of eradicating or updating or blocking outdated content material from Google shouldn’t be new, and we coated it numerous instances. 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of Google remark about it once more, this time on Reddit, saying, it’s as much as you to determine which of your outdated content material is useful and helpful – it’s not as much as Google to determine that.
John wrote, “There isn’t a higher / decrease phrase rely restrict or goal,” so it’s not about phrase rely 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 . You may additionally take a hybrid strategy and transfer them into an archive part, make the part noindex, and let folks nonetheless discover the content material by means of inside search (which additionally allows 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 had 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Personally, I wish to maintain my outdated content material accessible and I’ve actually not up to date a lot of my outdated stuff over time. It is sort of a museum for search engine optimization information. 🙂
Listed here are the earlier instances we wrote about this matter (not less than those I wish to hyperlink to right here):
Discussion board dialogue at Reddit.
