> Deleting old content to manage "crawl budget" is a myth and does not work or help your SEO. Typical SEO cargo cult behavior. This worked at one time, or at l

> Deleting old content to manage "crawl budget" is a myth and does not work or help your SEO. Typical SEO cargo cult behavior. This worked at one time, or at least it seemed to work, so we'll just keep doin' it. I can't really blame SEO people, though. As long as Google keeps its algorithms secret, I'm not sure what else they're supposed to do except publish good content and hope for the best - which, in an ideal world, would be good enough, but…