Less pages = more traffic?

I have a mass page website that I'm experimenting with, it's not spammy but will have possibly over a million machine-generated pages.

I've noticed pages with product/model numbers in I rank a lot better for but this is only around 10% of my pages.

I've read many instances where SEO's have deleted pages that don't rank well or get little traffic and the traffic for their website as a whole has gone up.


I believe this is because the inbound link juice is less diluted amongst the pages.

Is this something anyone here has tried?

ah never experimented - but I cant rule out - these days all STRANGE Scenarios are coming from Google - Recently someone shared an sexeriment on BHW - the case sensitive keyword rank better than the normal - For example - The White Cat website ranking on Number One -
however The white cat - website ranking on second page.

It is crawl budget. Google Has to pay a lot for collecting data.

I am facing similar problems as you, even wanted to start a thread to ask some days ago lol, after 1 year old, many pages get stale and less than 5 clicks in the whole time, I want to delete all of those pages only leave with strong pages, but also afraid some may rank better in the future, really hit a wall... I guess delete could be a good choice, but can't sure.

If you do the deletion part, please tell us the results later.

The more pages you have then you should need a server that can withstand the load of crawling, if the server sends pages slowly then the spiders will see your site as slow (Note that sometimes they try loading several thousand pages per second).

AshleyW said:

The more pages you have then you should need a server that can withstand the load of crawling, if the server sends pages slowly then the spiders will see your site as slow (Note that sometimes they try loading several thousand pages per second).

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If the ROI is there, more pages should not be a problem as hosting deals are in abundance with excellent pricing for dedicated servers too.

Yeah the server will be fine, it's on cloud run. I could be on the front page of Reddit and there wouldn't even be any slowness.

It's more the ranking effect of having less pages but those pages having more link juice that I'm interested in