{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Less Content, More Traffic: Removing 300k Pages to Win SEO","description":"They Deleted 300,000 Pages \u2014 Traffic Doubled In this episode of the Collaborator Podcast, Samy Ben Sadok sits down with Patryk Wawok, Founder & Head of Technical SEO at Organic Hackers, to unpack one of the clearest real-world examples of technical SEO impact at scale. While everyone debates AI content and publishing velocity, this conversation focuses on something far less glamorous \u2014 removing what shouldn\u2019t exist. Patryk shares how deleting 300,000+ URLs led to a dramatic traffic lift, and why crawl budget isn\u2019t theory \u2014 it\u2019s cost, resources, and prioritization. Inside this episode: \u2022 Why removing pages can outperform publishing more \u2022 How index bloat silently turns sites into \u201chuge sites\u201d \u2022 Shopify\u2019s hidden SEO debt (variants, filters, feeds, parameters) \u2022 JavaScript, SSR, SSG \u2014 and when rendering decisions break discoverability \u2022 Why most SEO audits never move the needle \u2022 Why technical SEO should be treated as infrastructure, not a checklist \u2022 Why simplifying structure benefits both Google and LLMs If you\u2019re serious about long-term organic growth, this episode will challenge how you think about scale. Follow the Collaborator Podcast for honest conversations with SEO operators building systems that last. ","author_name":"Collaborator Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/collaborator.pro\/","html":"