Estimated time to complete: 15 minutes<\/p>\n
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As the last module showed, content is an important part in fulfilling your website\u2019s purpose. While it\u2019s probably out of the scope of a site review to go through every word on your website, there are some high-level review tasks that can help you clean up your site\u2019s content.<\/p>\n
In the back end of your website, check how much content you actually have. Websites can easily grow quite large and sometimes older pages push out newer pages in search. Also, the more content you have, the more work it is to manage. There may be some old pages or posts that you can delete.<\/p>\n
To do this, go to the back-end of your website and hover over a content type (such as pages) in the side menu and click \u201cAll [content type]\u201d<\/p>\n
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From here, you can get an idea of how much content you have on your site. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to exactly how much content (for example, pages) is just right, it\u2019s a good idea to have both enough pages to house all your content comfortably (you don\u2019t want unnecessarily long pages) and little enough content that users aren\u2019t lost in. Use your best judgment (and maybe that of a few coworkers) to determine if you have too much or too little content.<\/p>\n
Another step to managing your content is to delete any test pages or pages that are blank. These can build up as a site gets older and deleting them every once in a while can help clean up your site. Remember to repeat this process for news posts, events, people, etc.<\/p>\n