Google Warns Against 'Content Pruning' As CNET Deletes Pages To Improve SEO
- by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 11, 2023
CNET deleted thousands of old articles to improve the sites performance in Google Search results, adding to the controversy brought on by its latest editorial strategy -- layoffs and experiments with articles written by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.
Archived copies of CNET’s author pages show that the company deleted …
The biggest "pruner" of all is Google. Google pruned my live active sweepstakes links and placed them behind a wall of spam links in the extended URL link section. Google, more to come!