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Will it hurt my site to delete some pages?

by katied772
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I recently signed up for Build My Rank and they rejected one of my sites saying that it is basically made up of content from article directories. I bought this site several years ago and have done little with it except for adding a couple of original articles. Traffic is nonexistent and probably the content is largely responsible. I'd like to clean up the site and concentrate on writing new pages and backlinking. Is there any problem with just deleting the pages with article directory content? Is it necessary to do a 301 redirect? This is a static site done in Xsite Pro and I am really not confident in doing a redirect. Would really prefer not to unless it would really mess up the site to not do so.
The url is http://www.sleep-help-4u.com if you want to take a look to see if there is anything else glaringly wrong that I don't notice. I am still pretty much a novice.
I think this site could have potential with some work. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author quintonboyer
    It will hurt your SEO if the pages that you want to delete have pagerank from sites linking to that page.
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    • Profile picture of the author katied772
      Originally Posted by quintonboyer View Post

      It will hurt your SEO if the pages that you want to delete have pagerank from sites linking to that page.
      No pagerank and no traffic. This entire site only gets maybe 8-10 visitors a day.
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    • Profile picture of the author anxjuz86
      Originally Posted by quintonboyer View Post

      It will hurt your SEO if the pages that you want to delete have pagerank from sites linking to that page.
      Yeah. Agree with you quiintoboyer. You will hurt your domain pagerank if you delete some of the pages since your domain rank influenced by the rank of the pages in your website.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        I say delete away.

        It is your site. It is a reflection of you and your work.

        As you said, you have diddly in current traffic. Maybe deleting some stuff will improve the site and improve your traffic and rankings.

        If the stuff you are removing is crappy, then get rid of it. Show your visitors the best you have to offer. You can alternatively bury the pages and just seo what you want.
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    • Profile picture of the author salegurus
      Originally Posted by quintonboyer View Post

      It will hurt your SEO if the pages that you want to delete have pagerank from sites linking to that page.
      Don't understand what you are saying:confused:
      Yes delete, just make sure you have no broken links, (links on other pages in your site pointing to the pages you want to delete)
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  • Profile picture of the author mithil
    You are certainly going to get a hit on the index of those pages if not the pagerank as these pages are there for a long time and they must be cached and indexed by the search engines.
    I would suggest you to put a meta refresh code in these pages for some time and later remove it once search engines will stop coming over there.
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    Instead of deleting you can edit those pages and put some new contents there.
    If that page is no longer needs delete and redirect to 404 page with links to home page and other article pages
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  • Profile picture of the author PhilJenkins
    Katied772,
    I did a quick check for you, all your backlinks except one are from PR 0 site. This one backlink is from a PR1 web page and it is a relevant backlink as well, which is a bonus.

    If you are not changing your niche, change the content and maybe layout of the homepage rather than deleting it. If you know how to get backlinks or you can afford to outsource it, then you can delete all pages. To be honest, it is easy to get PR1 backlinks - if you know how; so losing a PR1 backlink is not a major loss loss.
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    • Profile picture of the author katied772
      Originally Posted by abdulsanni View Post

      Katied772,
      I did a quick check for you, all your backlinks except one are from PR 0 site. This one backlink is from a PR1 web page and it is a relevant backlink as well, which is a bonus.

      If you are not changing your niche, change the content and maybe layout of the homepage rather than deleting it. If you know how to get backlinks or you can afford to outsource it, then you can delete all pages. To be honest, it is easy to get PR1 backlinks - if you know how; so losing a PR1 backlink is not a major loss loss.
      Thanks,
      What do you feel needs changed on the homepage?
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  • Profile picture of the author farhan0101
    it depend upon your page rank if it was good rank than it i will prefer not to delete page
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  • Profile picture of the author SerenaGomez
    Though for search engines content is a food. I would also say delete them if those pages are not relevant, no traffic and no pagerank.

    But don't forget to set 301 redirect on those pages to avoid 404 error.
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  • Profile picture of the author MrDougJay
    In my opinion you can delete it without problem. Just make sure to clean broken links as well.
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