{"id":1105,"date":"2011-03-30T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2011-03-30T16:18:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:18:26","slug":"website-tidying-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/03\/30\/website-tidying-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Website tidying decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my site got hacked recently (bah&#8230;) I had to go through a lot of html checking it over. As I did this, I began to realise just how much of my site is effectively useless. I&#8217;ve been running it sicne 1997, so there is some crap there, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/sb3001\/index.shtml\">this<\/a> early game or a whole bunch of ultra-low selling affiliate links. The affiliates sell very little, and I&#8217;ve handed over my ideas for an indie games website to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showmethegames.com\">showmethegames<\/a> now, so they are redundant.<\/p>\n<p>My first thought is to junk almost all of it, keeping\u00a0 just the sites for GSB, Kudos 1 &amp; 2, Democracy 1 &amp; 2 and Rock legend, maybe Starship Tycoon and planetary defence. I can just delete the rest, and have a tidy site.<\/p>\n<p>My second thought is that this might be bad, from a search-engine optimisation POV. suddenly googlebot will see a whole bunch of dead links, will this affect my page rank? Should I do some clever htaccess crap? or is it just fine to junk it all and let my normal 404 to the homepage redirect handle it?<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have experience of tidying up a really old site? is it worth doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my site got hacked recently (bah&#8230;) I had to go through a lot of html checking it over. As I did this, I began to realise just how much of my site is effectively useless. I&#8217;ve been running it sicne 1997, so there is some crap there, like this early game or a whole<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Website tidying decisions<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/03\/30\/website-tidying-decisions\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}