How to find unused items in the Content folder in Umbraco

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I'm setting up a new Umbraco site to replace an older ASP.Net site.

The old site is riddled with old content that isn't linked to anymore. I want to prevent the same thing from happening on the new Umbraco site.

Is there a good way of finding unused items in Umbraco's Content folder (not Templates or Document Types)?

If that's not feasible, is there a way to keep content owners from creating a bunch of content pages and abandoning them instead of deleting them?

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When you say "linked to", do you mean by other websites? And what would you class is unused items - things that aren't published, or that haven't been updated in X days/months? – edparry
By "Linked to" I mean linked to from within my own website. Unused would mean not linked to from within my own website. – user467384

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It's an interesting question, but from an SEO point of view an old page of content has plenty of power & I wouldn't delete it if possible.

I don't know of an umbraco package that will tell you which pages don't have links - but Google will tell you. If you want to know what links to www.example.com/oldpage.html then type the following into Google:

link:www.example.com/oldpage.html

(https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/55281?hl=en)

I wouldn't delete old content (unless it is now plainly wrong) I'd keep all the old content & tidy it away:

  • Create a folder under home called something like 'archive'
  • Move all your dead content there
  • Use a 301 redirection package or change urlrewriting.config in case there are any external links to these dead pages as the old urls will now return 404 errors
  • Make sure that the sitemap contains links to these new archive pages

You will now have cleaned up the structure, but without losing any SEO value.