One thing is very common about Blogging is It is similar to wine, the older it gets, it becomes better.
Though we learn with every phase of blogging passes away and when I turn the pages to old chapter of our blog, I always feel that I have something to change, edit and update on that blog post.
For example : My previous post on Working Airtel hack for free SMS alerts always needs an update in form of new codes. We can do it in many ways.
- Edit the previous code
- Write a new post
- Link back from old post
The ways are many, but we need to find the best possible ways, so that we will be adding more values to our old post and also come up with new old post. So In my case I will write a new blog post saying Airtel Hack and add an update note at the end of old blog post.
Top 5 reasons for Editing a blog post
Typos : Typos are most common reasons for Editing your blog post. Even after proof reading you might end up creating a typo. Such typos are generally discovered by your readers.
Images : An Image is worth 1000 words,I have been adding images from my post number one. Though many people miss adding images. No matter how long it’s been you can always add images into your blog. If you still have major portion of posts without images,make sure you update the post with images. But before you update your images, I will highly recommend reading How to find images for blog using Flickr
Update : As I explained in the above example, with times it’s become a requisite to update the post. you can follow any of the three method to update your post.
Search engine ranking : Sometime your one of post, falls into the first result of search engine. Make sure you add more values to such posts and lower down your bounce rate and increase ranking of other pages.
Values from comments : Comments are an option into blogging to create a discussion, sometime comments add lots of values to the blog posts. The best advice would be add the comment into your blog post, so that everyone gets the benefit of valuable comment.
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Do let us know, do you believe in editing or you find it better to leave your old blog posts as it is?
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Also we can add keywords in our previous blog post to make our post search engine friendly.
I never use to add images to my posts, until you mentioned it to me. Now I try my best to add images to make it more appealing and it also looks better.
I agree with all your points and might have to start going back to previous posts to update them.
.-= George Serradinho ´s last blog ..Great posts for the month of June 2009 =-.
As blog related to Java, often my old blogs go out-dated. In such cases, I usually go and update my posts. But, I’ve never tried adding images to my post, since it’s pain to search for the opt images.
.-= Veera ´s last blog ..JUnit 4 – testing for exception, execution time and disabling a test =-.
I only have a few posts being updated to make it more search engine friendly, after looking at the keyword stats. I should’ve doine it more often!
.-= Michael Aulia ´s last blog ..How to insert the post title in a Feedburner email subject field =-.
I have images to my posts as a thumbnail, may be i need to add a few within the post to bring more life into them…
Nice Post Harsh!
Cheers
Sandeep
.-= Curious Little Person ´s last blog ..Writer™s Block? Just Do It to get over it =-.
very true Old post might get better place in search engines.
.-= Rahul ´s last blog ..Earn Free Money Online doing nothing =-.
Do you really think that updating older post improves ranking of that page!!
.-= Pro-Vamsi ´s last blog ..What is DOCOMO | TATA DOCOMO ? =-.
I like u’r post.. thaks