05/03/2026
If your traffic dipped and your site feels messy, content pruning for SEO can be one of the quickest ways to restore clarity. Small business sites collect baggage: old posts, duplicated location and service blurbs, thin pages that never earned rankings, and near-identical pages that compete with each other.
A practical content pruning plan for small businesses. Use a simple decision tree to keep, improve, merge, redirect, or delete pages safely.