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Is mass blog deletion/301 redirect punishable on search engines?

I'm going to try to make this short. I've run a blog for six years now, specializing in male mental wellness. A few years ago, I had some success garnering regular visitors through search engines alone, but over the last few years, that number has pretty much dropped to nothing.

One of my issues is that most of the content on there is pretty generic. I started the thing when I was new to SEO and developed a large number of generic pillar pages to attempt to rank cluster content (long-tail keywords) off of. Again, had success a few years ago, but I'm well aware how much has changed.

I've had the thought to completely redo the structure of the content, targeting more specific niche topics in this category, and getting rid of the general information pieces. Part of the mindset here is to try to lower the volume of what I'm working with; it's just me on the blog as of this time, with about 300 posts/pages. I'd like to shrink that to 50-100 and begin working out from there.

I've just never done something like this for any of my SEO clients, and I'm wondering if anyone else has attempted it and what the results were like?

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