Too many forum posts - may I delete the oldest ones?

[DDL]

Hello,

We've got product pages with comments. We have collected so many comments for the last two years on these pages so they made problems to our website. We plan to cut every posts older than one year to solve this problem.

Could it be bad for SEO? (Yes, these are really unique and relevant posts...)

How could I predict the consequences?

Thanks!

[IainReloadMedia]

Hey DDLUX,

I see where you're coming from. The important question is are any of these pages in Google's main index? If so don't remove them. Also check if any are receiving SEO traffic directly. If so, don't cut those either.

However thin/low value pages need cleaning out otherwise you'll get a visit from Google Panda!

Thanks

Iain - Reload Media

[DDL]

Thanks, Iain!

Our case seems a bit more complicated (or more simple). Page loading time is very long due to the large amount of posts, so we must reduce the amount of comments.