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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

www.theverge.com

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months ago

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The “content pruning” is being done for SEO purposes.

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Wouldn’t using robots.txt do the same thing without deleting content?

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