Veronicas Blog: SPI 200: How Deleting a Third of Your Content Can Triple Your Traffic—How to Do a Content Audit with Todd Tresidder

Welcome to Episode 200! Can you believe we’re already here?

For my 200th episode, I knew I had to do something special. That’s why I’ve brought on my friend Todd Tresidder to tell you all about the awesome power of content auditing.

Todd ran a content audit on his own site, FinancialMentor.com, and the results floored him. By deleting, combining, and updating the hundreds of blog posts on his website, he tripled his site traffic. Todd’s here today to give you a step-by-step walkthrough of how he did it, and how you can do it, too.

This all might sound scary or counterintuitive. How could less content bring in more traffic? Why would you want to delete all those hours of hard work? Todd covers all that and more, including success stories from major businesses that will leave you eager to get started on a content audit of your own.

As someone in the midst of a major content audit himself (which you’ll see very soon in the redesign of SmartPassiveIncome.com), I’m so excited to share Todd’s game-changing approach to improving your website. Enjoy!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why deleting content can help your search ranking.
Tell-tale signs you should delete a piece of content.
How to get started sorting your blog posts for auditing.
How Todd discovered his content audit strategy.
When in your site’s life cycle you should think about a content audit.
How to use redirects to keep your site organized.
The amazing results major brands are seeing from their audits.

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Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

FinancialMentor.com
WillItFly.com
FinCon
Yoast SEO
Smart Passive Income Podcast Episode 78: Rapid Audience Building For Accelerated Hypergrowth (From Scratch) – Landing Pages and Conversion Optimization with Clay Collins
Freshbooks – Enter code “SPI” at checkout for a 30-day free trial!
99Designs.com – $99 Power Pack of services, free!

If you want to hear more from Todd, check out Smart Passive Income Podcast Episode 155 and read this guest post from him on profiting from giving away content.

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