The subject of eradicating or updating or blocking outdated content material from Google will not be new, and we coated it numerous occasions.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of Google remark about it once more, this time on Reddit, saying, it’s as much as you to determine which of your outdated content material is useful and helpful – it’s not as much as Google to determine that.

John wrote, “There isn’t a higher / decrease phrase rely restrict or goal,” so it’s not about phrase rely 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 may be helpful, however I don’t know what content material you are taking a look at. You could possibly additionally take a hybrid strategy and transfer them into an archive part, make the part noindex, and let folks nonetheless discover the content material by means of inner search (which additionally allows you to see in metrics if the content material is – on combination – nonetheless thought-about helpful by your common customers).

He added:

One thing may be helpful even when just a few folks learn it. Think about if Wikipedia deleted all articles that had been within the decrease percentile of views. (And equally, one thing may be ineffective even when lots of people learn it.)

Personally, I wish to maintain my outdated content material obtainable and I’ve actually not up to date a lot of my outdated stuff through the years. It is sort of a museum for search engine optimization information. 🙂

Listed below are the earlier occasions we wrote about this subject (at the very least those I wish to hyperlink to right here):

Discussion board dialogue at Reddit.