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Take care of your content

Your content must be accurate and current. Pages that are outdated or contain incorrect information must be updated or unpublished.

Three reasons to update regularly

  1. The content becomes more relevant to the visitors.
  2. A recent date on the website gives a more credible impression.

  3. Search engines prioritise updated content.

Review your pages

It is important to clean and update regularly. Pages that are outdated or contain incorrect information should be updated or unpublished.

Time-sensitive information can quickly become outdated and can make your website less credible. Therefore, make sure that your pages do not contain dates that have passed. This is important, not least because KTH is a government agency.

In addition, up-to-date content provides a better user experience and is more easily found in searches, as search engines prioritise up-to-date content.

The content must:

  • be current and not contain dates that have passed
  • be correct
  • not be more comprehensive than necessary.

Clear out old content

Make sure to unpublish content that is out of date or redundant. This also applies to documents or other files.

Things to consider when deleting old content:

  • When unpublishing or removing outdated pages and files, please consult with the content manager and content owner for the part of the web you are working on.
  • In Polopoly, it's important to unpublish pages and files first before deleting them. Otherwise, they will still be found by search engines.

There are legal requirements that public documents must be handled according to our internal regulations. However, nothing in the law says that all information must be available online. You can thus advantageously unpublish old material and refer visitors to the central archive or your school's archive for older protocols, documents, etc.

Document Management and the principle of public access to information