Comments on: Revitalize Old Content On Your Blog

By: Gwen Gyldenege

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:39:14 +0000

Excellent. I’ve been feeling the same. I appreciate the confirmation.

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By: Phil Kendall

Sat, 28 Feb 2015 06:47:06 +0000

In reply to Phil Kendall.

I must check mine out inside my website…I’ve added new pages!

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By: Angie Dixon

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:55:41 +0000

Great post. I had a similar problem. I had a lot of content I had written years ago and either not used or used on a now-defunct blog. I wanted to rework it to use again. I was surprised to find out how much of it was in good shape, but I was also surprised how bad some of the bad stuff was. Great advice, here.

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By: Phil Kendall

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:48:18 +0000

In reply to Alyson Stanfield.

Alyson,
You are correct, those internal links do make it easier for the enquiring visitor…so obvious. I forgot I use them on my website…helping to keep the visitor on site!

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:06:02 +0000

In reply to Marcia Yudkin.

Absolutely, Marcia. I do this, too. But I didn’t do it so well in the early days of the blog. Fortunately, many links to old programs are now redirected to newer versions of them. It’s the ones I forgot that I want to find.

Thanks for stopping by.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:04:51 +0000

In reply to Cherry Jeffs.

Excellent idea, Cherry!

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:04:25 +0000

In reply to Phil Kendall.

Phil: You’re assuming that the links go off the site. Most of my links go to my own products, programs, and posts.

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By: Phil Kendall

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:34:44 +0000

Hi Alyson,
Links in an information based blog like yours are important and also they are very useful’

But for the personal art blog, that corner of your website, apply your ‘evergreen content principle’ and have no external links…no pruning ever needed.

And having got them to your website: why encourage them to leave using a convenient link that you put in place for them to follow out of your website?

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By: Cherry Jeffs

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:35:48 +0000

Great idea to start with the top posts, Alyson. And while we’re at it, just think of all the useful info we’re gathering about which posts resonate with our readers 😉 We could include a link to these posts as a group (Start Here/Most Read), expand them into an eBook or build a new content series around them 🙂

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By: Marcia Yudkin

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 03:44:42 +0000

Alyson,

What I do when I find outdated pages on my website (for example, promoting a product I don’t sell or an event that is long past) to delete the content and forward that page to another, current page, that is thematically related to the deleted content. I don’t know if this can be done easily on a blog. But it’s very easy to implement on a website.

Marcia Yudkin

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