Wordpress question - deleting posts
 

I have ablog thats been RSS fed for ages so has LOADS of posts, of cause google doesn't like it so i want to delete all the posts and start again with unique content. If i was to delete all the posts then delete them from the trash, would they be gone from the database? I don't want the database bloated for no reason. Also is there an easy way to delete hundreds of posts quickly?

Any reasonably competent "script person" (not even a programmer) can delete all of the from the database in a few minutes. If you're going to start over and it's just for SE traffic, though, why not start over on a new URL and leave that one producing whatever little it produces?

Good idea. I wouldn't be surprised if Google rolls back some of these changes or makes adjustments to make it more conservative soon. Some of the results have been nothing short of crazy. The fact is the Penguin update has penalized many sites which were not spamming in any form.

delete all, then empty trash, and it will be gone

Well, this site never did anything great in the SE's even before the latest cluster-fuck, it was only set up as a RSS fed blog as to have something on it while it sat around waiting for me to come back to it.
It's obvious that RSS fed blogs are totally dead now so all i'm going to do with it is add about 20 unique posts then use an "old to new" plugin and leave it to soak for a while.

Cheers :)

Why do you feel that rss fed blogs are no good?

Because of the duplicate content. I used to be all for using RSS but the last google update (the one before the recent one) went for my RSS blogs big time and i'm currently swapping them out for blogs with unique content.

I had a mild panic and had to check the few I had. lol. They're still doing fine, still with pagerank and consistent traffic.

I wouldn't say it's reason alone to delete all the content. You might be able to switch the layout and theme and provide a mix of unique content to improve their rankings.

I'm not saying my rss blogs are totally and utterly dead, a couple manage to bring in a couple of hundred people a day, i just feel they could be doing better. And yeah, i'm also using it as a chance to try a different layout too.