Design Challenges

Erasing, how bad could it be?

Remember those days when your teacher used to tell you: "don't erase, you might get extra points"? How right were they! Even to this day you should follow that advise.

When it comes to the Web, content is king. The more content the more information available to search engines. The better your search engine ranking, the more traffic you generate, hence the more revenue. It is all very simple math actually!

This leads to my point, if more pages equals more page rank, why in the world would anyone ever delete content? Let the content sit there; it isn't harming anyone. If you find yourself at a point where the content must change though, make sure you create a redirect instead of deleting the file. At some point the search engine spiders might have hit the page in question and by deleting the page you might leave someone stranded for information. If you must delete, make sure you leave a note or redirect to a relevant page. The bottom line is that when it comes to the Web, deleting is bad, while leaving behind is good; a great rule to follow.