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Removing a portion of website...possible rank effect?

by tedobee
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Need some advice from the Warriors here, on what to do, or not, so my rankings don't get effected.


I have a site, that has a static site a blog and also a members forum. The forum hardly gets used anymore, Last of the bulk activity was a year ago or so. From what I can tell, a lot of pages of the forum are indexed. The way I'm checking that, unsure if correct is doing site:the,full,url,of,page in search box in Google. Most pages return a result with description.


I'm thinking of losing the forum of the site, as it doesn't get used anymore and most of what is on it is old, along with the fact that even though it doesn't get used, I still have to maintain it. I would have to guess also, half the content in the forum has no relation to what the site is anyway.

Now, if I lose the forum will it have an impact on my sites results? Is this old forum information actually useful at this point? Also, what would be the proper way to remove it so it doesn't effect it really bad? Or do I just leave it and hide it?
I am in the mean time removing any direct onsite links to it, so it is more hidden from users.

Also, a seconded question, I may be migrating to a new server. Does this have an effect on ones search results?

Looking for opinions and possibly solutions here on what to do with this forum, to not effect my sites search rankings.
#effect #portion #rank #removing #websitepossible
  • Profile picture of the author DNAWRealm
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    I would suggest 301 redirecting the whole forum to your blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author brainfreeze0
      Originally Posted by DNAWRealm View Post

      I would suggest 301 redirecting the whole forum to your blog.
      I thought of that first but that could be potentially damaging as well. I know if I saw a forum snippet in search I wanted to check out and when I got there I was on some blog I had no desire to read Id bounce right off that site. That'd hurt his bounce rate drastically which would affect his blogs URL now and not the pages he wanted to get rid of.
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  • Profile picture of the author brainfreeze0
    The proper way to remove it would be to robot.txt it, invis the actual pages on the navigation menu, and submit the pages for removal in webmaster tools. As for if it could hurt site rank there's so many factors that could depend on its hard for me to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author tedobee
    Thanks for the thoughts and input on this. Think maybe for now, I should leave good enough alone. Ill remove the links to it one the site and just keep one small link going to it. Perhaps removing it may have a bad effect.

    Any thoughts on the other? If you move a site to a different server does it effect the sites ranking at all? I read for the most part it shouldnt, but this is another thing I may have to consider doing. The site could be down for periods of time when they do it im told.

    Thanks again
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    • Profile picture of the author Aarav
      I recommend you to Robot.txt* to remove the unnecessary stuffs. It will surely work for you to remove the unwanted stuffs that wouldn't affects the rank.
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