Completely changing a site's content - Really need your thoughts

[gpoutcast]

Hey there fellow members.

I have a news website that is on hold right now since i do not have the time and the will to keep on with that project.

The website's stats are the ones below:

This website is approved by Google Adsense and it is also part of Google News.

I am thinking of moving the website to a more niche-oriented content, about a specific "thing" in my area.

The problem in that I have to remove all of its content (around 11.5k posts = 18 Gbs of content) since I cannot spend that much of disk space on my new VPS to a dead project.

How do you propose that I should handle it?

Edit: I forgot to tell you that the website is in greek language and has .gr domain name

 

[Mr Positive]

You can redirect this site to a new domain or why don’t you work on this site as news sector is booming currently

 

[gpoutcast]

Hey there @Mr Positive!

I want to work in this domain, its news posts are copy-paste from the biggest news agency of the country and i do not have the time to do that on a constant basis.

The best scenario I am thinking of is to redirect all permalinks to the domain main page and then keep the "new" main page as a blogger setup and feel, with news that concentrates in a specific local area that the domain relates to as well.

 

[Kuku-Nav]

Redirection is best idea

 

[MisterXYZ]

Just no index existing posts and remove them slowly.

Redirecting 11k posts to home page is not good idea.

 

[t2van]

Hey there @Mr Positive!

I want to work in this domain, its news posts are copy-paste from the biggest news agency of the country and i do not have the time to do that on a constant basis.

The best scenario I am thinking of is to redirect all permalinks to the domain main page and then keep the "new" main page as a blogger setup and feel, with news that concentrates in a specific local area that the domain relates to as well.

Umm why not look at building something or finding a script to auto import / pull the news as a source to your site if all you are doing is copy and pasting Id imagine there is a way to automate it and make it much quicker for you.

As for local area news id just create a subdomain or folder for that area specific so domain/city or domain/city-specific-news-topic

 

[gpoutcast]

Umm why not look at building something or finding a script to auto import / pull the news as a source to your site if all you are doing is copy and pasting Id imagine there is a way to automate it and make it much quicker for you.

As for local area news id just create a subdomain or folder for that area specific so domain/city or domain/city-specific-news-topic

Do you have any proposal for the auto-importing script you mentioned @t2van

 

[gpoutcast]

You can redirect this site to a new domain or why don’t you work on this site as news sector is booming currently

@Mr Positive how do you advise me to do that? I bought another domain ( pretty much the same it only misses a word like "the" in front - it wasn't available in the past). So how do i redirect the whole domain and its permalinks to the new one?

Shall I use it as alias domain?

 

[webdim]

I think a redirect to a new domain is your best option.

ps:
Ελληνας?

 

[Manjuanis]

Redirecting is risky better you can deindex the post and remove it