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Remove low-traffic posts is useful
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My traffic dropped after August update and is almost back now. I haven’t removed any posts. What am I doing wrong?
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How did you decide the low traffic bar?
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Yes, we saw the same on our large 350k clicks per month. We filtered out the exported Google search console data and went on a merging, canonical, robots no index/ delete entirely spree.
Also hit our all time highest traffic. When using GSC export filter by 12-16 month period. If it’s newer than 4 months leave it some more time.
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Take this post with a grain of salt. Last year, I followed someone’s advice to trim and delete low-traffic articles. I made sure to spare the articles that have valuable backlinks.
It didn’t help. In fact, my site traffic decreased after that.
So now, I have a smaller site with no way to get back the deleted articles (I could restore a backup but it would take a lot of work) and lower traffic.
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