The subject of eradicating or updating or blocking previous content material from Google is just not 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 previous content material is useful and helpful – it’s not as much as Google to determine that.
John wrote, “There is no such thing as a higher / decrease phrase depend restrict or goal,” so it’s not about phrase depend and he mentioned this earlier than. “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 will be helpful, however I do not know what content material you are taking a look at. You may additionally take a hybrid method and transfer them into an archive part, make the part noindex, and let folks nonetheless discover the content material via inner search (which additionally enables you to see in metrics if the content material is – on mixture – nonetheless thought of helpful by your common customers).
He added:
One thing will be helpful even when only some folks learn it. Think about if Wikipedia deleted all articles that had been within the decrease percentile of views. (And equally, one thing will be ineffective even when lots of people learn it.)
Personally, I prefer to preserve my previous content material out there and I’ve actually not up to date a lot of my previous stuff through the years. It is sort of a museum for search engine marketing information. 🙂
Listed below are the earlier occasions we wrote about this matter (at the very least those I need to hyperlink to right here):
Discussion board dialogue at Reddit.
