I think that eventually, as software becomes more advanced, it may be difficult to tell the difference between an auto blog and a low-end blogger. Now we can semi-automate article production with good grammar. So it's just a matter of time until the grammar correction engine is developed.
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Originally Posted by TopDogger
my site is auto update and currently with 400k post (max for wp), with daily 3-4k post update n delete, so far only encounter small issue with google panda effect, my traffic was increase 15-20% (monthly base), after panda it slow down to 5-10% increase but not totally de-index :)
btw i'm not sure is post panda issue or i start deleting old post .....
The ones I ran were highly targeted keyword wise and only received about 20 posts a day max and Google seemed to like them. But the stickied posts were original articles and they received most of the Google traffic.
If I was Google, I would ignore most of the older posts on a frequently-updated blog. So it's possible that you are wasting money on hosting if you are keeping all of the posts.
Here is the code for the WP plugin that I coded:
I ran this plugin on my blog for a few weeks now and it still ranks and maintained PR.PHP Code:function delete_old_posts()
{
global $wpdb;
$tokeep = 90;
$protected = array(1); // Array of protected post ID's
// Select the posts to be deleted
$rows = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE `post_status` = 'publish' AND `post_type` = 'post' ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT $tokeep,1000000" );
foreach($rows as $row)
if (!in_array($row->ID, $protected))
wp_delete_post( $row->ID, true ); // Delete post and force deletion rather than trash it
}
add_action( 'publish_post', 'delete_old_posts' );
If I am paying ten bucks a month for hosting, and I have like 10 gigs of storage, how am I wasting money by not getting rid of old posts?
Plus old posts still may contain good information to readers.
I use on one blog a plugin Will had mentioned that randomly brings up an old post.
It works for me, as bringing up an old post each day means new visitors to that post.
And if old posts are in the serps, what do you do when people try to go and find nothing?
You are not wasting money since your low-traffic site is not consuming much CPU and memory on the server so your web host doesn't require you to upgrade.Quote:
If I am paying ten bucks a month for hosting, and I have like 10 gigs of storage, how am I wasting money by not getting rid of old posts?
Also, you probably didn't notice that this thread is about Autoblogs that create new posts sometimes 1000's of times per day.
Don't some of those old posts still draw traffic vs. most not? Any sort of filter you use to save the good ones?Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy101
In my experience and others that tried auto-blogging, your web host will want you to shift over to VPS or dedicated servers if you just let it run because it will cause high server load. Hence, my decision to clip off old posts and keep only the fresh posts.Quote:
Don't some of those old posts still draw traffic vs. most not? Any sort of filter you use to save the good ones?
But, ideally you can keep 400K posts to get the residual traffic from older posts like our extreme blogger above did.
For filters to detect which posts are worth keeping, you would need to implement a tracker that records the recent post IDs that were hit on. Then add these post IDs to the protected array in the plugin. This is a good idea :) Hmm, maybe I will add this feature?
You should. I do loads less posting than you, so for me it is easier to track by looking at stats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy101
But another thing I pay attention to is trends. Posts which experience growth in traffic tend to keep rising due to new incoming links and people sharing them on social media.
I have a few more ideas, but will leave it at that for now. :)
I don't do high frequency blog posting, also I'm not working on WP plugins right now.Quote:
I do loads less posting than you.