Comments on: Why Updating Old Posts Will Change Your Blog’s Fortunes

By: Frumusete

Frumusete — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:07:50 +0000

Big thanks for tips :)

By: WhitWhike

WhitWhike — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:44:59 +0000

Interesting idea. But, it seems like you could just be making new content in the same time it takes to update the old content.

By: Arjen

Arjen — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:34:52 +0000

I agree, I’m planning to do this, as some of my old(er) posts contain a lot of grammar mistakes and search engine unfriendly urls.

Good advice, it reminds me to do this a bit earlier than planned.

Thanks!

By: Amol

Amol — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:24:22 +0000

I have had the same experience.
The older posts had very few comments.I did some modifications in older posts like giving a more SEO friendly title , giving links to related posts and putting up some images related to content of the post.
These provided more depth to the posts.
But I have one problem.
Though I changed the title of the post , the name of the page does not change .(My blog is in blogger).
Then, does merely changing the title of the post have any effect?Or will I have to change the name of the html page also?
for example see this post:
http://blogdhaba.blogspot.com/2008/08/famous-sachin-quotes.html

By: James @ Organize IT

James @ Organize IT — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:42:19 +0000

Thanks for publishing my guest post!

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:37:23 +0000

True. Bringing the old post back to life can definately increase SERP�s positioning. Additional, the data and responses can be targeted as the major source for the online marketing management.

By: Ibrahim Rabbani

Ibrahim Rabbani — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:51:12 +0000

Basically we’ll bring our old posts back to life with the potential of increasing their search rankings and hopefully rake in new traffic, not bad advice at all!

By: Glen Crosier

Glen Crosier — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:09:06 +0000

It’s a great point about adding graphics and more depth and substance to posts. It is always tempting to “just get it up there” but as demonstrated by all the successful blogs real quality is the only way.

Glen Crosier
Brighton, UK

By: Chetan

Chetan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:26:45 +0000

Making the title more SEO friendly is one of the best keys, and you might pretty easily know which post needs to be edited and which are still popular and need no changes.

I have been making changes to one of my blogs and testing things out, and yes it does help a lot in updating old blogs.