How Removing Zombie pages effect on domain authority?

[jafarfahi]

Hi.

Recently I got a project (removing zombie pages here: https://www.alamto.com/ )

As you can see this site has about 20k indexed page on google and it seems I should remove about 6000 useless indexed page. does removing (Noindex) these pages affect on the site metrics?

Which metrics would affected? and how?

Thanks.

[Paddy_Moogan]

Hi there,

Your focus should be on removing pages which are not adding value to the website and for your users. For example, if you have pages which contain old and inaccurate content which is no longer useful, then you may want to consider either updating the page with better content or removing the page completely.

Adding a noindex tag may make Google drop it from their index, but users may still be able to find the page on your website, so consider whether you want to remove the page completely using a 404 or redirect it to another relevant page with a 301.

In terms of metrics, it really comes down to what you want your users to do when they visit your website. If you want them to spend time reading your content and then clicking through to other pages, then these are important metrics to measure. Then if your pages aren't doing this, then you either need to improve them or consider removing them if they aren't good quality.

I hope that helps!

Paddy

[Vanderlindemedia]

You could export the Webmaster analytics, make a summary of which pages tend to run good and which not. Based on that data you remove the "old" pages, and watch the effect. While your at it perhaps throw some new content towards it. Does'nt hurt.