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4:59 am
June 15, 2013
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Moneysma
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Hey everyone,
I was looking through my archives the other day and found some "diamonds in the rough" so to say back from when I first started to blog. What's the best route if I want to ad content to these old posts? Re-write them entirely? Just update them and share socially?
Thanks!!
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7:43 am
June 15, 2013
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maria@moneyprinciple
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Re-write! They are always better when re-written and very different – you and the world have changed and hopefully at least one has improved :).
Maria
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8:21 am
June 16, 2013
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ConsumerFu
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I agree with Maria. I wouldn't delete the old post necessarily. Some old posts give you a nice way to reference growth and change.
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11:58 am
June 16, 2013
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Barbara Friedberg
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Occasionally I will revise an old post and then repost it currently. This only works if there is no date in the permalink. AFter you have a large stable of articles, it's a shame to let them languish in the past. Here's one I recently updated, http://barbarafriedbergpersona…..f-success/. It's one of my all time most popular articles.
I've also stopped dating articles.
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1:45 pm
June 16, 2013
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Jeff Rose
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I frequently re-pulish old posts after updating with new content and making it relevant to current trends. Note that I only do this if the URL structure is desired (I had some old posts that contained numbers or the year in it). If I wanted to update the URL structure, I would then write and publish a new post and then 301 direct the old post to the new one.
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4:50 pm
June 16, 2013
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Moneysma
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Great info everyone..thanks for your comments. I'll go ahead and re-write them.
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11:49 pm
June 16, 2013
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Untemplater
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You can also just make an old post "sticky" to bring to the top of your homepage temporarily. If you publish a brand new post just remember to make it sticky as well or it won't show up first.
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8:04 am
June 18, 2013
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I do this pretty regularly now as I have an archive of 900+ posts. Some of them from 2007 are not great, but are on great topics. I save them as a draft and re-post with the new date. That way it keeps the URL and organic traffic but gives the readers (old and new) more value. I also put a note at the bottom "originally published XXX, updated XXX)
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2:50 pm
June 18, 2013
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martin
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To be honest, Google looks at every single post. I went through my archives and deleted so many articles.
A few more things you can do:
Add reader comments to the content.
Delete the post.
Re-publish with updated thoughts.
Re-publish with reader comments.
Write a new article where you mention the old ones.
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4:18 pm
June 18, 2013
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial
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I will normally just update the existing post and republish (the date is not a part of my URL structure).
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9:50 pm
June 19, 2013
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The Frugal Toad
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Khaleef @ KNS Financial said:
I will normally just update the existing post and republish (the date is not a part of my URL structure).
Khaleef
Just curious what the potential outcomes of updating and republishing might be. Did you see increase in traffic or a change in the posts PR?
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8:14 pm
June 21, 2013
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Moneysma
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Eric – NarrowBridge.net said:
I do this pretty regularly now as I have an archive of 900+ posts. Some of them from 2007 are not great, but are on great topics. I save them as a draft and re-post with the new date. That way it keeps the URL and organic traffic but gives the readers (old and new) more value. I also put a note at the bottom "originally published XXX, updated XXX)
So if I understand, you go into a post that you previously published, edit to to draft form, update the info in the post and then simply re-post for the current date?
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8:34 pm
June 21, 2013
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Melissa (Mom's Plans)
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Barb Friedberg said:
I've also stopped dating articles.
How did you stop dating the articles? Can someone let me know how to do that? Thanks!
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7:53 am
June 24, 2013
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Barbara Friedberg
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Melissa,
I don't remember exactly where, but in the dashboard, there is a settings item which allows you to opt in or out of certain structural formats for each post. This way if I miss post one week, there's no date to show I posted 2 instead of 3 articles one week.
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