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

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

Nomzy Stholly

7 min
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><strong>TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:</strong></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:27] Today’s Topic:</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">When to Keep, Cut, and Consolidate Your Content</span></em></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[00:54] You may find that some of your content is outdated.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[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.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:15] Search engines want to eliminate redundancy.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:55] Removing old, outdated content can be a good idea, but often less content means less traffic.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:05] People who prune content, prune the quality content that won’t affect traffic.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:35]</span> <a href= "https://supermetrics.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">SuperMetrics</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">or</span> <a href= "https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Screaming Frog</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">are two great tools to use to crawl your website.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[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.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:18] Use</span> <a href= "https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Google Analytics</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">to look at your content that isn’t performing well.</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:35] When you cut those pages, you may lose more traffic than is being shown by GA. Remember you may

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