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Changing All Blog Post Titles From '2016' To '2017' - The Right Method!

by SurgeClicks
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Hello Warriors,

I run a couple of blogs across various different niches and over the last one year I have published a number of articles with the '2016' tag in the title, something like this 'Top 10 Richest Sportspersons - 2016', I saw that this helped me get ranked much quicker than usual, so I started following this across many of my posts, but now I am concerned about retaining these rankings!

I have only included this tag within the title, it is not in the URL,

1) So can I simply edit the blog post title and SEO title by changing all 2016s to 2017s at once? What would be the impact of something like this?

2) Or should I republish all these articles under a fresh date as an updated article? I would do this over a period of next 30 days!

I know many sites which include the year, date or month within their titles, so please let me know the best way to get this done!

Regards
#2016 #2017 #blog #changing #method #post #titles
  • Profile picture of the author kodeforest
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    Why you want to change your old blogs title.? Because i don't think so you need to change but if you want to change just open your blogs admin and rewrite blogs title.
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  • Profile picture of the author markhimeb
    Don't change anything in your existing posts if they are working well and bring you traffic from the serps.

    The right way to do this is by writing new posts that will not be identical to the ones for 2016. In any other case Google would see your posts as duplicates and penalise you for this
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    You write new 2017 content.. add a link at the TOP of the page of the "old" 2016 post linking it to the new revised 2017 page. I use the same type of strategy I call "Future SEO" I have a tendency to use this more for event based content allowing me to post dates way out in the future in some cases. Take SEMA as an example dates go out 5 years. So you could literally write content all the way out to 2021. Check it on google... there are already pages out there!


    Originally Posted by SurgeClicks View Post

    Hello Warriors,

    I run a couple of blogs across various different niches and over the last one year I have published a number of articles with the '2016' tag in the title, something like this 'Top 10 Richest Sportspersons - 2016', I saw that this helped me get ranked much quicker than usual, so I started following this across many of my posts, but now I am concerned about retaining these rankings!

    I have only included this tag within the title, it is not in the URL,

    1) So can I simply edit the blog post title and SEO title by changing all 2016s to 2017s at once? What would be the impact of something like this?

    2) Or should I republish all these articles under a fresh date as an updated article? I would do this over a period of next 30 days!

    I know many sites which include the year, date or month within their titles, so please let me know the best way to get this done!

    Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author Kaarthik Shrivastav
    I did a random test search in incognito mode for social bookmarking sites january 2017 and found that most of the pages I had previously visited, its just that the authors have changed the title from month-2016 to january-2017 and this seemed to work.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by SurgeClicks View Post

    Hello Warriors,

    I run a couple of blogs across various different niches and over the last one year I have published a number of articles with the '2016' tag in the title, something like this 'Top 10 Richest Sportspersons - 2016', I saw that this helped me get ranked much quicker than usual, so I started following this across many of my posts, but now I am concerned about retaining these rankings!

    I have only included this tag within the title, it is not in the URL,

    1) So can I simply edit the blog post title and SEO title by changing all 2016s to 2017s at once? What would be the impact of something like this?

    2) Or should I republish all these articles under a fresh date as an updated article? I would do this over a period of next 30 days!

    I know many sites which include the year, date or month within their titles, so please let me know the best way to get this done!

    Regards


    I do this automatically every second of the day via PHP code on static evergreen pages, well, every second Google is reindexing my pages.

    I don't even change the content, just the date.

    ...been doing this for a few years. Google is ok with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    Yes you can go for changing the title for 2017 It will help you ranking better for this year.
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  • Profile picture of the author salmonjames21
    First time I am seeing such scenario. I wonder would that really work. Here in your justification you mentioned that you changed from 2016 to 2017 but you didn't mention if you did same in 2015 to 2016 or not?

    If this was the case, then where's the Google Algorithms in it?

    I am just curious about this as I am not familiar with this whole stuff very much.
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  • Profile picture of the author DCR MEL
    Change post title only. Url should be kep the same..
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  • Profile picture of the author SurgeClicks
    Originally Posted by Kaarthik Shrivastav View Post

    I did a random test search in incognito mode for social bookmarking sites january 2017 and found that most of the pages I had previously visited, its just that the authors have changed the title from month-2016 to january-2017 and this seemed to work.
    Hi

    Thank you very much for your help, I searched for some of my popular keywords and saw that a few competing pages have already added '2017' in the title!

    So I think this should be fine! Thanks for your help.

    Regards

    Originally Posted by yukon View Post

    I do this automatically every second of the day via PHP code on static evergreen pages, well, every second Google is reindexing my pages.

    I don't even change the content, just the date.

    ...been doing this for a few years. Google is ok with it.
    Thanks for your advice, I have also seen a few coupon and deal aggregator sites doing this, but I think they ensure the content / coupons within their pages are updated or active, but either way the process they follow has to be automated!

    I guess now I can proceed without any fears
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  • Profile picture of the author salmonjames21
    Thanks for such a nice thing but again my question is, are you guys sure that ranking will not be affected at all. As google crawler will come and see that you changed the heading and now once again it will get crawled with the new title. So how would this impact?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by salmonjames21 View Post

      Thanks for such a nice thing but again my question is, are you guys sure that ranking will not be affected at all. As google crawler will come and see that you changed the heading and now once again it will get crawled with the new title. So how would this impact?

      Why would I do this for years If it was a problem ranking pages?

      It's not a problem.
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      • Profile picture of the author salmonjames21
        Why do you get angry even I was just asking it for the sake of information as I am new in this field and I have to learn a lot of things from expert guys like you
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