Can we talk about that old 'never delete anything' advice from early webmasters?
Back in 2006, I was running a small fan site on GeoCities. This guy on a webmaster forum, username 'PixelJockey', told me in a thread to never, ever delete old posts or pages, just archive them. He said search engines loved deep, old content and it built trust. I listened, and for years my site was a mess of broken links and ancient 'under construction' GIFs. I finally cleaned it up in 2012, and my traffic actually went up because the site wasn't a ghost town of dead ends. PixelJockey meant well, but that advice was from a different internet. It locked me into a bad habit for nearly six years. Has anyone else dug up and ignored some old forum wisdom that just didn't age well?