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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)
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[–] dsmk@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From a SEO point of view, the idea of removing duplicated or very similar content is good, but for news websites... I don't know. Why not use "noindex" on pages/sitemaps of old pages and "nofollow" inside the site for old links? At least they wouldn't create link rot.

Edit: I recommend reading this: https://searchengineland.com/google-warns-against-content-pruning-as-cnet-deletes-thousands-of-pages-430509