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When You Should Be Upgrading, Consolidating or Deleting Your Content | Ep. #330

Jun 26, 2017

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In Episode #330, Eric and Neil discuss when you should be upgrading, consolidating or deleting your content. Tune in to learn how updating your content can increase your traffic significantly, what’s worth deleting, and the benefit of consolidating similar articles of content.

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00:27 – Today’s topic: When You Should Be Upgrading, Consolidating or Deleting Your Content
00:43 – Neil doesn’t delete that much content
- 00:45 – Neil did this with Crazy Egg’s content that was over one year old and had less than a hundred visitors
00:59 – Neil didn’t really delete the content, he just unpublished the articles on WordPress
01:09 – The traffic didn’t go up or down
- 01:21 – Over time, content will get more traffic or less traffic
- 01:41 – If the content continues to go up, there’s no modification needed
- 01:44 – When the content goes down, they modify it from the metrics in Google Analytics
02:17 – Neil just updates his content
02:30 – Eric sees a 30% increase in updated content
02:37 – Eric will only delete content that is completely irrelevant or outdated
02:58 – Check out an episode from Pat Flynn’s podcast
03:34 – Eric consolidates content that are almost the same and that are competing in rank
03:48 – Hub and Spoke marketing
04:09 – Neil is getting 30-60% when he updates his content
04:40 – Update the posts that are generating traffic already
04:49 – Neil sorts their content through Google Search Console by the most popular and updates them
04:58 – Wikipedia’s content is always updated
05:17 – That’s it for today’s episode!

3 Key Points:

Updating content that is already getting traffic can further increase your traffic.
Consolidate the content that is very similar—this is the best thing to do so that they don’t compete for rank which using the same keywords.
You don’t have to delete content; they may be of use someday.