-
Remove low-traffic posts is useful
Posted by on September 10, 2024 at 9:24 amI'm operating a Ecommerce website, I created blog posts to bring organic traffics. In June, the organic traffic dropped due to core updates. In August, I removed about 40% of low-traffic posts, and the site's overall ranking has been improving. Until now, my website reached its highest peak in organic traffic.
-
1 Reply
-
Quality of content + blogs without any volume could be an issue
-
Interesting case study, could you give us some numbers? Traffic in Aug, and traffic now?
-
Thanks for the report 🙂
-
Did you 301 to home page or 410?
What about internal linking?
-
There’s so many confounding variables that saying deletion of low traffic articles correlates with overall traffic increase is essentially impossible. And I can’t think of any reason why it would be a causation.
When did you write the deleted blogs, when did you delete them?
-
Updating content is highly recommend isntead of deleting. But, if the pages are made just to increate number. Deleting them is good
-
Removing low-traffic posts can be a great way to improve your website’s overall performance and focus your efforts on high-performing content.
-
did you just delete any old low traffic post or whats the criteria? what do you do with that content do you reuse it for later or include it in other pages or is it gone gone?
-
You’re making a lot of assumptions for events that also directly correlate with the August Google Core update.
I’m all for removing low-quality content but low-traffic does not equal low-quality.
If there are only 500 people in the world needing something a day, Google isn’t going to punish your website for serving those users the content they need.
-
Unless the articles were low quality Ai generated word vomits, I see every additional article, assuming it’s quality, as a new fishing line for traffic.
-
Yeah this is no surprise. Removing pages with low or zero traffic is part of the content audit. Always an effective way to get our of those penalties.
-
Each scenario is different; but its not like you can directly compare. How do you know republishing couldn’t have been more beneficial? There are so many immediate questions I’d have for this:
How can you tie all of the moving cogs in a complex system to one change?
How do you know traffic volumes didn’t change > completely out of your hand
How do you know post-roll out algorithm changes didn’t result in an increase and could have changed the performance of those pages?
Lots of sites saw seasonal, information, temporary rank changes during the rollout- we did NOTHING across 30 domains and saw a traffic bump….
-
its odd that this account was created specifically for this….. smells like demand gen
-
Seems pointless unless the content is actually just dogshit. You’re removing internal link opportunities and you could just reformat the posts and update them instead, or build links to them.
-
No. There was Google Core Update.
Log in to reply.