How to properly delete old blog posts?

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Hello,

I want to delete a few (old and unrelevant) blog posts from my WordPress powered website and I wonder what's the proper way to do it (the blog posts don't have any internal links pointed to them - they're just categorized and have a tag).

1) Do I delete the posts and that's all?
2) Should I create a 301 redirect? (I'd do a redirect to the main page)
3) Should I add a 410 ("content deleted") header?
4) Should I just check the "noindex" option in my SEO plugin?

I'd appreciate your thought.

Thank you.
 
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pirxus said:
Hello,

I want to delete a few (old and unrelevant) blog posts from my WordPress powered website and I wonder what's the proper way to do it (the blog posts don't have any internal links pointed to them - they're just categorized and have a tag).

1) Do I delete the posts and that's all?
2) Should I create a 301 redirect? (I'd do a redirect to the main page)
3) Should I add a 410 ("content deleted") header?
4) Should I just check the "noindex" option in my SEO plugin?

I'd appreciate your thought.

Thank you.
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@pirxus

Google may still show your deleted blogs after deletion. One of the best ways to do it is by 301 redirect, which is effective on content with link values. If there's no link at all in your content, deleting it is easier. All you need to do is to use the "410 deleted" status code so Google will not show deleted blogs in the results. There's also a "404 crawl error" code, but Google focuses more on the 410 status.
 
The way i do it - in order :

Find another post that is similar to the one im deleting -> add more content to it from the one im deleting as a new heading/seciton -> delete old one -> redirect to the new post which has merged content

this way the keyword count of the merged post increases and you lose nothing
 
301 redirect is the best way and you can redirect your home page.But no-index post or page can delete better way.
 
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