noindex old content #2585
Description
Worth noting that there’s a middle ground before we reach “delete”, where we could tactically (or automatically) noindex pages that don’t meet a relevancy or currentness threshold.
That’ll prevent them from showing up in Google etc, and should also prevent them from showing up in on-site search mechanisms.
Then they’re addressable via direct links, but not otherwise discoverable.
That’ll also mean that we don’t need to consider the (considerable) overhead of configuring and managing 301 redirects for deleted content (without having, say, a handy SEO plugin in place to manage this), as well as updating all of the content that links to those pages…