Editing older blog posts for SEO

12 years ago

I recently asked this question on WF.
The answer is yes, you can update the old content. Still, if you want to "update" (adding new content and information), better leave the old content and add the new content with *UPDATE* prefix.

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soharox

12 years ago

Originally Posted by ralchevd

I recently asked this question on WF.
The answer is yes, you can update the old content. Still, if you want to "update" (adding new content and information), better leave the old content and add the new content with *UPDATE* prefix.

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Update old contents, will it take long time to give result?

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hostdare 12 years ago

Originally Posted by soharox

Thanks for your reply.
Update old contents, will it take long time to give result?

Yes it will take long time because Google will index it first.I think if you will write fresh and new content it will be better Google will index it fast and gives good results
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ridgeback 12 years ago

Nice answer, I regularly think about updating posts and this has helped, thanks.
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sohailglt

12 years ago

i was also searching for this information thank you very much...

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Kevin Maguire

12 years ago

Originally Posted by soharox

Hi friends,

Is it worth to edit old blog post for better seo?
Because old content was poorly written and no more seo optimized.
Any ideas about it?

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This whole creating a blog to churn out site updates, is so primitive. There is so much more you can do these days to keep your site updated without looking like a content mill.

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nik0

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kevin Maguire

This whole creating a blog to churn out site updates, is so primitive. There is so much more you can do these days to keep your site updated without looking like a content mill.

What would you do?

As that's exactly what I see people doing, attaching some blog to it and pasting some boring laps of text that make zero sense for the purpose of the site. In fact that kind of practices can degrade the quality of the site in the eye's of Google.

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Ettienne

12 years ago

It's always a good idea to edit old content in my opinion. I once changed a single paragraph and (h2) header in an article that got about 5-30 hits per day, about a week after the change it started receiving 200-300 hits per day. Just one example, so yes, it's a good idea

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webprogramzone

12 years ago

You can edit the cotent of your old articles or blog but do remember that it should have some keyword frequency in it same as older one. And I would prefer to add new post rather than editing it for SEO

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johnsmith789

12 years ago

Update and add new content. Last week I update and add new content in my website and since last week I am getting about 300 clicks to my blog. The only thing is add quality content with pictures and useful links.

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arindamroy

12 years ago

Hi,
You can edit old content and surely it will not harmful for SEO. But make sure that it is indexed by Search Engine or not? If not then you have to index anyway.
Also I prefer to post new content simultaneously.

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Vector Graphics

12 years ago

In certain circumstances editing or updating your content is a wise decision. It is however best to try and write content in a way that doesn't need much updating. Writing about evergreen topics always helps too!

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Hansons

12 years ago

You can edit your old blog posts and add some more content as well, when your new content is indexed you would get the benefit.

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alphaomegalady

12 years ago

Better update new content, unless you have enough time to do all the work ( new & old content).

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arthuratkin

12 years ago

Here are some tips to help revitalize your old posts for your readers, as well as to help your search engine page ranking...Thanks

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STLSEO

12 years ago

Yes. I would certainly go back and optimize old blog posts (if you have all other things in order). Be sure to have PageSpeed performance (80% or higher) and microdata (schema.org) markup completed before going back and optimizing older blog posts though.

Always prioritize.

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techseoworld

12 years ago

It is better you will add new content without updating old one.

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Moneymaker2012

12 years ago

If you feel the quality of that old content wasn't good enough, don't edit it, instead remove that content and re upload after re-writting it, if the new content has good quality then search engines will find it fresh and give value to it.

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yukon

Banned 12 years ago

I've taken web pages & completely re-purposed the pages for targeting new keywords, Google is pretty good about things like that, just make sure to stay in the same niche & never mess with the old URL.

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hostdare

12 years ago

I think you have to write fresh and update content.Google likes it rather than editing old post

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NicholasCage

12 years ago

why not updating content is seo friendly practice..

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Deepak09

12 years ago

Originally Posted by soharox

Hi friends,

Is it worth to edit old blog post for better seo?
Because old content was poorly written and no more seo optimized.
Any ideas about it?

Thanks.

Hi Soharox, yes its too worthy for a website to edit the oldest blog post with new or fresh content.
If you found that your old blog content is useless then ofcourse change the whole content otherwise just put some fresh content according to the present's requirements.

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SASA Techno

12 years ago

When ever you have created a new content so make sure relevant and unique content give that a blog so that is best impression see your blog because blog sites page rank is high and also domain authority so best part is create a unique content..

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bermuda

12 years ago

If you believe the older contents on your website do need some revisions and updates, there is nothing wrong with modifying them.

Of course another idea is to leave the older, cached pages alone and then write some fresh contents which will address new issues discussed.

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dorankaren

12 years ago

it is better to search relevant blog and comment on this this better way to increase the keyword or improve seo

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netanel23

12 years ago

YES!!

BIG YESS!

You can modify the pages title tags to rank bettter, you can benefit from the new updated content Google sees, just don't change the URLS!

This is a great way to add additional value to the post, clean it up and change the title tags to be more "seo friendly"

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John Romaine

12 years ago

There's nothing wrong with tweaking pages in an effort to have them perform better in the SE.

One area I would recommend focusing on are your page titles. As said above, no need to muck around changing your urls.

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affilorama-portal

12 years ago

Yes no problem with updating old content. In fact Google loves updates and updating your old posts mean adding something new and the new pages that are recently updated may have better chance of coming up on top pages of SERPs.

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