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The Danger of Premature Site Pruning
One of the biggest mistakes new website owners make is assuming that fewer pages automatically means higher quality.
They open Google Search Console, see warnings, discover that some SEO influencer recommends deleting "low-value" pages, and suddenly they're on a mission to clean house. Tag pages disappear. Archives vanish. They slap noindex tags across entire sections of their site.
The result is often the exact opposite of what they intended.
Instead of improving rankings, they erase the very signals that
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