Delete or not delete...

[YESdesign]

Hello there.

We have a blog for one client with 270 posts and we want to keep only the best posts, in order to avoid Panda penalties.

In your opinion how can we understand which one is worth while to keep online in the blog and which one is better to delete from the blog?

Which Google Analytics metric would you use to determine the quality of the posts and then grade them?

Before make this big curator work we wanna show an Excell file to our Client.

Many thanks for all your suggestions.

YESdesign team

[irvingw]

anything that is not original, noindex follow it.

check to see which pages are getting the most traffic and keep those or even add content to them.

noindex, follow pages that have less that 300 words or so to help combat panda

[YESdesign]

Many thanks Irving, what about if every post is original content?

Specifically what metrics you'll check and take care about in Google Analytics?

Thank you

[irvingw]

Even if it's original content, filtering flimsy pages with little data for the user are what panda is all about. You can noidexed follow them and then gradually open them back up as you add additional content.

look at your pages report and see top traffic generating pages, those pages are getting traffic because Google likes them and is ranking them. You definitely don't want to block any pages that are getting ranked and bringing visitors.