Delete content that brings you traffic

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They say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and in the world of SEO, this is doubly true. It is much better to think carefully and plan each step carefully when maintaining a website than to have to deal with the consequences of serious mistakes later.

Before you remove any content from your website, take a good look at how it’s performing in terms of traffic and backlinks. You can easily see if a page is getting any traffic in Google Analytics. Go iceland phone number data to the “Acquisition” section, click on “All Traffic” and select “Channels”. You’ll see your website traffic. In the report, click on “Organic Search” and then on “Landing Page”. In the following report, you’ll see your traffic for the given period, broken down by landing page. Find the page you want to delete and make sure it doesn’t have any traffic that you don’t want to lose. If the content on the page is too outdated, it’s better to update it to reflect the current situation . In most cases, this is a better solution than simply deleting it.

If you still decide to delete the page, remember to redirect its address with a status code of 301 (permanently moved) to other suitable content so that visitors and search engines get the most similar alternative to the deleted content.

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How to recover accidentally deleted content
If you find that your site has seen a significant drop in traffic after a redesign and removal of some content, check to see if the deleted content is to blame. Check Google Analytics. Set a time frame before the content was deleted and use a report that shows you organic search traffic broken down by landing page. Compare this report to your current report and see if any pages that previously had high search traffic are missing from your current list of visited pages.

To simplify and speed up the analysis, you can copy the data into an Excel spreadsheet and simply compare both lists of visited pages. If you find that one of the pages had high traffic in the past and is now not in the list, try to check if its content has been moved to a different address. Enter the original address in your browser. If you are redirected to a new location, check if you were redirected with a 301 status code, which preserves the original "link juice". If the redirect does not occur, or if you cannot find the original content after the redirect, you have probably deleted it.