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🚨!!! Do NOT just delete content for SEO !!!🚨

Doing this wrong can harm your (clients) sites!

You should only do this after a proper content performance audit.

And, unlike Brian, I’ll actually explain WHY this can help/harm your rankings!

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How does it help?

Site Quality.
Google uses more than just "page-level" metrics

Link value flow.
Removing pages may mean fewer internal links, thus more PageRank flowing through links.

Improved crawling.
Not wasting crawls on garbage.

But there are RISKS!

>>> How does Deleting pages help?  Removing pages "can"
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How can that be harmful?

There’s lots of damage you may do - here’s 5 risks.

Inbound links.
You might remove pages that have Inbound links, which give you ranking value.
If the page is deleted, you lose those link values!

>>> How can Deleting pages harm a site?  Removing pages can harm
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