SEO Question About Niche Website

[bigarash]

Have a question: a website that previously had different unrelated categories and was not focused on a niche decides to focus on a niche. Should those unrelated categories and articles be deleted?

 

[SirLouen]

Should those unrelated categories and articles be deleted?

It depends if those page had visits or not. If not, you may decide to merge them or remove them. It doesn't really matter, removing a page without visits won't do much harm to your site, if you confirm deletion on GSC timely when the warning pops (the first soft 404 warning)

But if they are having visits I would not remove them, in fact you may be interlink and put some effort on them to integrate the better you can within your site.

 

[bigarash]

It depends if those page had visits or not. If not, you may decide to merge them or remove them. It doesn't really matter, removing a page without visits won't do much harm to your site, if you confirm deletion on GSC timely when the warning pops (the first soft 404 warning)

But if they are having visits I would not remove them, in fact you may be interlink and put some effort on them to integrate the better you can within your site.

Some of those articles are getting visits from Google, but most of them do not. Categories are not related in any way, imagine there are articles from food recipes to automotive and crypto.
What should I do in your opinion? Keep what is getting visits and delete what is not?
Btw, thank you so much for answering my questions.

 

[SirLouen]

What should I do in your opinion? Keep what is getting visits and delete what is not?

If the crypto articles are getting visits, I would try to think on how I could relate food and crypto to integrate them, specially for interlinking purposes. Those already visited sites, could be a mine of gold for other articles linked from them.

 

[bigarash]

If the crypto articles are getting visits, I would try to think on how I could relate food and crypto to integrate them, specially for interlinking purposes. Those already visited sites, could be a mine of gold for other articles linked from them.

Seems like an interesting idea. Will look into it.

 

[HenryObi]

Have a question: a website that previously had different unrelated categories and was not focused on a niche decides to focus on a niche. Should those unrelated categories and articles be deleted?

I don't know how unrelated the previous niche is, but if you delete those pages you would lose some link juice they had as a result your overall SEo authority would be impacted. Maybe not by much.

 

[Bobby D Winston]

This is a good help post.Thanks a lot

 

[bigarash]

I don't know how unrelated the previous niche is, but if you delete those pages you would lose some link juice they had as a result your overall SEo authority would be impacted. Maybe not by much.

So you are suggesting that I should not delete any categories or articles right?

 

[CheapestContent]

You should not delete these articles.

 

[HenryObi]

So you are suggesting that I should not delete any categories or articles right?

I'm just telling you what you stand to experience. The consequences.

 

[HustleTong]

If they're getting traffic, retain them until your new posts start to rank

 

[shakilurrehman]

Depends on relevance, value, and potential.

 

[Irfan sultan]

It depends if those page had visits or not. If not, you may decide to merge them or remove them. It doesn't really matter, removing a page without visits won't do much harm to your site, if you confirm deletion on GSC timely when the warning pops (the first soft 404 warning)

But if they are having visits I would not remove them, in fact you may be interlink and put some effort on them to integrate the better you can within your site.

yes well said dear this information is most important for those who uploads irrelevant material and do not follow the original guidelines regarding their niche.

 

[achiever2011]

Have a question: a website that previously had different unrelated categories and was not focused on a niche decides to focus on a niche. Should those unrelated categories and articles be deleted?

If they are not getting any traffic , then only delete them .