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Posted by bradhart • 10/23/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, SEO, theme, wordpress

Has anyone else else decided to go back and improve their old blog posts in terms of SEO and just general prettying up the blog?

I have a couple of personal project blogs with a few hundred posts. Now that I have prettied up the theme to be more image friendly like adding a thumbnail from each post to all the archive/tag/etc pages, I keep asking myself if I should go back and add them and redo some of the SEO or just forge ahead with new work. This will be a real PIA, but something I can do over a couple of months.

I am curious if anyone else has done it and how helpful they have found it in terms of traffic.

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10/23/08

RTBjr73

I have been told by a couple of people to take an old post that is still revelant, spruce it up with some new additional content, and republish.

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  bradhart
  
  I am more thinking about the visuals. Would you find it off putting going through an archive page to find some of the posts were there with thumbnail images while others didn't? Would it make you click on one over the other?
  
  I am going to do the SEO no matter what in time. Much of what I know now about SEO I didn't know 3 months ago and what I knew 3 months ago I didn't know 6 months and so on. The good thing about not having a date in my permalinks is I don't have to worry about changing it when I republish. I can present it as new material and as long as I don't actually change the page slug any backlinks to it will be found through wordpress's own 301 redirect.
10/23/08

PrincessQuello

My site is fairly new so I don't have to do that, thank goodness.

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10/23/08

PetLvr

I've been trying to do this everyday on my PetLvr blog, mostly because I had a hiccup once upgrading between versions and a few posts are missing where the "more" statement was. Also, on previous versions my H2 styles were different so I'm trying to correct that.

If you look at my site PetLvr.com/blog/ .. I'm in the process of doing this now - click the LEFT image where my caricature is. I'm using this wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-redirect/ plugin to randomize posts and then when I have time, I just sit there clicking and fixing the formatting or content of older posts.

The archives are worth it - as people are coming from the search engines.

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10/23/08

dosox

My archives are History... it will remain as it is.... If you wanna have a look
Check out my blog and click on that archives link

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