{"id":14084,"date":"2023-08-10T19:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=14084"},"modified":"2023-08-10T19:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:23:55","slug":"media-cnet-tech-news-site-deletes-old-content-to-improve-search-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/08\/10\/media-cnet-tech-news-site-deletes-old-content-to-improve-search-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: CNET tech news site deletes old content to improve search rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm&#8230;. CNET deletes thousands of old articles on its site in order to improve its ranking in search engines. This is known as &#8220;content pruning&#8221;. Google says it is not necessary but some web sites are doing it anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/08\/the-internet-is-not-forever-after-all-cnet-deletes-old-articles-to-game-google\/\">The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google | Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you delete old stories if it would improve your search engine ranking? Some sites say yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}