I Am Doing a Content Audit. Do I Delete Content? Set Up Redirects?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Katie, who has a question about the SEO impact of deleting old content and setting up redirects for her website. Should she delete her content that’s under 300 words? Should she set up 301 redirects or 410 redirects? What is going to happen to my carnival links? Katie’s website is at http://kitchenstewardship.com. In this episode, we mention SPI Session #200 about doing a content audit on your website. Listen to that episode at http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/session200. Do you have a question about auditing your old website content? Record it at AskPat.com. Thanks to our sponsor, Design Crowd. To learn more about working with their designers, go to http://designcrowd.com/askpat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
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0:10.6	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:11.9	Paflin here and welcome to episode 822 of Ask Pat.
0:15.1	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.6	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your all-line business questions five days a week.
0:20.1	We have a great question today from Katie. But before we get to your question, Katie, I do want to think today's sponsor, which is Design Crowd.
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0:57.8	All right, now here's today's question from Katie.
1:01.3	Hi, Pat.
1:02.0	My name's Katie Kimball,
1:03.1	and I've been blogging at kitchen stewardship.com
1:05.3	about real food and natural living since 2009.
1:08.5	Now, I have 2,200 posts,
1:13.3	and that's what my question is about today. I just finished listening to SPI podcast number 200 about the site content audit, and I'm so jazzed to go
1:19.3	through my site and just clean up the junk that's in my archives. My husband created a tool
1:25.4	that listed all of my short posts under 300 words, right? Because
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