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Websites fall into one or two categories and most websites are content specific. The website initially started as an about me page but then veered over to things I'm interested in. The benefit of this format is that I can share less often and someone following topics I'm interested in can read through my site without getting lost on a platform. There is also no confusion about context for the content. Each page is a presentation from me, to the reader.
Overall, the format works well for me but internet rules have changed. Content needs to be less than 5 years old to rank well on search engines. All sites must now have an SSL certificate installed regardless of whether or not it is banking or medical site. This provides privacy to the reader, in theory, the ISP can not see any traffic between a web browser and a content server. This eliminates the need for VPN and other complex privacy software for most internet users.
What the ISP can see is the where the IP addresses traffic is going to, they can see some DNS queries, resolving domain names to server IPs. They can see the amount of bandwidth being used but in theory, they shouldn't be able to tell if its streaming content or a download. For example if I visit awesomewebsite.com and browse around on a few pages, they can see that I requested the IP address for that domain, and that I downloaded 80MB of data. If I went to contentserver.com, they might be able to see the DNS query and that I downloaded 2.5 GB of data. Here is where the theory breaks down because if I streamed 2GB of data it might take 1 hour, a download might take less than 15 minutes.
Many people don't care about SEO rankings unless they are a business or hobbyist marketer. Most things are behind a login and open websites are most often given to people they know first so they can visit their page. Some people post content on the internet to see where visitors might come from.
In these situations, people will occasionally find some of their content on the internet and if they like their site, they might visit once in a while. For open websites, a lot of them, people prefer minimal SEO rankings, just enough to show up on the internet once in a while, but not so much that they feel obligated to post on a specific schedule. People will post on a schedule if they have enough readers but sometimes, they just don't have enough time for it, and its a bit of a touchy subject.
The final thing is content categories which helps with content controls, traffic shaping, and monitoring. Content can determine where a server is placed on the internet, and monitoring is often to ensure site availability and uptime. For example, if someone is on a mostly down and unavailable server network, that can affect how their content shows up on the internet and if a hosting company or ISP considers it a priority if their site is not working or unresponsive.
This finally leads me to my site redesign which may be minimal anyways. Overall, I write about a few things like fitness, diet, entertainment (sort of), and learning. This has changed over time and I stopped writing about technical topics some time ago. I currently like topics like economics, history, science, and relationships. The goal is to have a generic site but also to have very specific sites if I have enough content and can manage a few websites.
Goals
This is a pretty big project for most people and I'm giving myself up to 18 months to get it all done
Concerns
I'll be updating my sites before the end of the year and most content will be 404. There might be a few redirects but those are mostly for posted content that has a misspelled url and already has traffic. If I do a search bar or search page, the preferred syntax is 3-5 keywords or a direct phrase from a title or content that is less than 8-10 words.
e.g. "the cat was sleeping in the afternoon" or "cat stories" or "cat, sleeping, afternoon".
Should be pretty basic, most of the internet is going for simple and easy to use.