The No Need to Cull Edition

Kristine Schachinger and Jim Hedger run through the week's search-related news items but focus on trying to explain, debunk, and find use cases for the new SEO fad of content-culling. Recently Google reps weighed in on CNET's decision to remove a large bulk of content from the earliest days of the Internet. This prompted a good debate in the SEO community and a good conversation between hosts Kristine Schachinger and Jim Hedger on the value of culling content and the limited number of scenarios in which it might be a useful tactic. The question of what to do with ancient content is a question of what the Web is supposed to be to different users. For some, the Web is the world's largest archive of everything while to others the Web is an active place of commerce and communication and for some, it's just a place to screw around and have lolz. Speaking of, we also talk about the Zuck vs. Musk fight, how to block some AIs using robots.txt, the difference between crawl and render, and a whole lot more...Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy