Comments on: Blog Exercises: Clean Up Your Most Popular Posts http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:02:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Weekend Project: Online Spring Cleaning - Stephanie M. Cockerl http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-1008679 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:48:26 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-1008679 […] Blog Exercises: Clean up your Most Popular Posts This is a good thing to do monthly or quarterly. […]

]]> By: Mary http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-981206 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:54:59 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-981206 I agree. Some of the most interesting posts I find on other people’s blogs are dated years ago. Just because some content is “old” doesn’t take away the truth in it.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-980049 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:44:45 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-980049 @Shannon:

Love it! I am always stunned when I hear “professional” bloggers say they ignore their old content. I find it such a great way to motivate and inspire myself. Good for you!

]]> By: Shannon.Kennedy http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-980031 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:32:07 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-980031 Absolutely. Going through my old articles gave me the opportunity to really see what I was missing as far as content, giving me the opportunity to brainstorm ideas to cover them. It also provided me with the chance to rewrite some “okay” content to make it much more useful and applicable.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-980028 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:40:54 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-980028 @Shannon,

Didn’t you find some new energy and enthusiasm coming out of the effort? I find ideas percolate and start flowing while editing old posts, uncovering gems withing gems.

]]> By: Shannon.Kennedy http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-979980 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:28:09 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-979980 I think this is a great suggestion. I started my blog back in 2004, but forgot about it for a few years while I was in school. Back in August 2012, I decided to revive the site and started out by editing the collection of articles that already existed on the site. Even though I had written them almost ten years before, a lot of the information was still applicable, they just needed a bit of a refresh.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-979836 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:18:47 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-979836 You should not change the date of publication as that will break links to the original posts. How to handle these are coming up next month. In brief, the basic policies are to clean it up then blog about updating the post, promote it in social media, include it in a new article series, rewrite a new version and point to the old (updating the information on the new post rather than just the old one), and featuring old posts in a “blast from the past” series of posts. Many different ways to bring them back to life and to the attention of your readers without republishing, which is considered bad form.

Thanks!

]]> By: DeBorah Beatty http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-979813 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:40:39 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-979813 Great post. Good stuff here. Now, I get the pingbacks and links to the old posts, but what if you just want to republish some really old posts? Is it as simple as just changing the date of pubication?

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-979791 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:32:02 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-979791 You are welcome. Isn’t it amazing how something you said years ago still matters today? :D

]]> By: kdmarshall http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/blog-exercises-clean-up-your-most-popular-posts/#comment-979771 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:06:22 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=7810#comment-979771 Hi Lorelle

I’ve been following your blog exercises. This one I started a little while ago after looking at my google analytics and seeing that people were reading stuff I’d written two, three years ago.
Great advice!

Thanks
Keith

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