Decide what to do with thin pages

Prompt that decides for thin pages whether to expand, merge, keep or remove them, with redirect targets. Paste it into an AI tool of your choice, which then sorts the thin pages.

Topic: SEO & website copy
Type: Prompt
Level: Intermediate
Time: about 15 min

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Help me decide what to do with the following thin pages.
Pages: [Pages]
Data: [Data]
Site: [Site]
Approach: 1. Describe for each page which question it answers and whether another page answers it better. 2. Use the data to show visits, search impressions and incoming links per page, as far as available. 3. Propose one decision per page: expand, merge into another page, keep, keep but exclude from search, or remove. 4. For merge and remove, name the redirect target or explain why a not-found status is right. 5. For expand, list the missing content in three bullet points. 6. Sort the work by effort and expected benefit.
Output: table with page, decision, reason, redirect target, missing content and priority.

Take particular care to decide page by page with data and keep pages that others link to via redirects.

Before you answer, check: Are all instructions met? If key information is missing or a placeholder in square brackets is still in the text, ask instead of guessing. Mark assumptions as assumptions.

Help me decide what to do with the following thin pages.
Pages: [Pages]
Data: [Data]
Site: [Site]
Approach: 1. Describe for each page which question it answers and whether another page answers it better. 2. Use the data to show visits, search impressions and incoming links per page, as far as available. 3. Propose one decision per page: expand, merge into another page, keep, keep but exclude from search, or remove. 4. For merge and remove, name the redirect target or explain why a not-found status is right. 5. For expand, list the missing content in three bullet points. 6. Sort the work by effort and expected benefit.
Output: table with page, decision, reason, redirect target, missing content and priority.

Take particular care to decide page by page with data and keep pages that others link to via redirects.

Before you answer, check: Are all instructions met? If key information is missing or a placeholder in square brackets is still in the text, ask instead of guessing. Mark assumptions as assumptions.

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Start with ten pages from one group, for example past event pages, and agree on the rule before you apply it to hundreds.

Why does this work?

Many weak pages make a site harder to crawl and to navigate. Deciding page by page with data, and redirecting merged content to the best fit, keeps what still brings visitors and removes the rest cleanly.

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Before removing a page, check whether other sites link to it or it still gets visits; such pages should be merged with a redirect, not deleted.

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