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Orphan Files

by maharvey
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I've had a static website for 17 years. It's 200 pages (remember when content was king?). I'm creating a new responsive website with about 10 pages. When it goes up there won't be any links to the 190 pages left behind. I think these are called orphans. What's the best way, seo-wise, to deal with them? Do I leave them on my host or delete them? Do I notify google? I'm thinking of posting 2 or 3 of them to my blog each week, good idea or bad? Thanks!
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    No one is answering so here is my plan. As I post the content to my blog, one or two per week, I'll delete the pages from my host. Good idea?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by maharvey View Post

    I've had a static website for 17 years. It's 200 pages (remember when content was king?).
    The last time "content was king" was before Google existed. And that was a different kind of content. Whatever page mentioned a keyword the most, won.

    Originally Posted by maharvey View Post

    I'm creating a new responsive website with about 10 pages. When it goes up there won't be any links to the 190 pages left behind. I think these are called orphans. What's the best way, seo-wise, to deal with them? Do I leave them on my host or delete them? Do I notify google? I'm thinking of posting 2 or 3 of them to my blog each week, good idea or bad? Thanks!

    You are not being very clear here. You are redesigning the existing site or moving to a new domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author maharvey
    redesigning the existing site.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Why not add the pages now instead of drip feeding? It's not going to help for SEO If that's what you're thinking.

    If the drip feed is is for traffic, fine, I get that.
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