... where teams fall back on familiar metrics and start defending pages that look successful in isolation. Rankings and sessions still matter, but they no longer explain visibility, suppression, or disappearance in modern search systems.
Content Pruning
Why Content Pruning Broke Every SEO Rule You Were Taught, And Why It Works Now
Most “Underperforming” Pages Aren’t Bad Content, They’re a Structural Problem. This section looks specifically at id'ing pages ripe for pruning.