Comments on: Blog Improvement Project Week #17: Update Old Posts

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:54:53 +0000

Good idea Kim. I just posted what I’m working on.

By: Julia Smith

Julia Smith — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:39:27 +0000

Just did this one, Kim – I concentrated on updating my book reviews archives and making the reviews easier to find by genre, author name and title.

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:22:11 +0000

Hi Kim,
I have got mine posted. You can see it at my place, Just Books. Have a great day!

Sherrie

By: Jodie

Jodie — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:12:27 +0000

I’ve been popping about updating a few posts this week so I thought I’d just drop a comment rather than link up to them. I’ve changed posts that used to link to reviews elsewhere to have the full review, because the sites they were at have closed down. I’ve also linked some posts to related content. I think I want to work on adding more links to alternate reviews for each book (time) and I still have to see if I have the text for my review of ‘The Sugar Queen’ stored somewhere because the place it was hosted went down. Great idea to contonuously update btw, just need to remember to prioritise it.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:06:59 +0000

Yeah, I hope so. I’m not entirely sure about how Google indexing works, but I updating old posts certainly can’t help. And more links between posts and to posts outside your blog is good for indexing, I believe.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:05:58 +0000

That’s cool, congrats! Do you have any way of knowing where the link was coming from (from the person you linked to or because it got grabbed in a search engine)? I’m curious about the search engine part of it because I know nothing about that.

By: Melissa @ Melissa's Bookshelf

Melissa @ Melissa's Bookshelf — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:42:53 +0000

Thanks for a great post! I just went back and started going through some of my first reviews, reformatting them, etc. I had noticed that Google wasn’t indexing as many pages from my site as it used to, so hopefully this will help!!

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:34:44 +0000

I ran (figuratively, of course) back over here because, checking my stats for today, I’ve gotten two hits on a review I haven’t ever had a hit on since the first month it was posted, and I think it was because I added in a link to another review (you can see I’m biased now for what I said on my comment up there). I haven’t even linked to it in the Mr. Linky in this post. SOMETHING has happened all on its own and now I’m fascinated.

What’s happened with everyone else? Anything unusual yet wonderful?

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:32:01 +0000

I don’t think I’d care if it was just adding a link to another review; it’s not significantly affecting the original post and if a blogger kept mentioning how many links they’ve added (or whatever), I think I’d be really annoyed. The same with typos and such. If they rewrote part of the review entirely, however, an update note might be useful and even needed.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:49:41 +0000

No problem Jackie, I hope it’s a helpful process for you!