What do you think about republishing your old posts?

[xpl0iter]

Even famous bloggers tend to republish their old topics from time to time. Do you do that?
If so what are your reasons.

Personally I haven't done this and not a fan, I prefer to write follow up posts rather than republishing the old post. That way you will get a lots of new stuffs to write about, which have changed and also you will have a chance at reducing your bounce rate.

 

[JLogan]

Even famous bloggers tend to republish their old topics from time to time. Do you do that?
If so what are your reasons.

Personally I haven't done this and not a fan, I prefer to write follow up posts rather than republishing the old post. That way you will get a lots of new stuffs to write about, which have changed and also you will have a chance at reducing your bounce rate.

I republish old content, and I see no problem with it. Though, I usually add some more information to the article before I republish it.

 

[Jordan]

Even famous bloggers tend to republish their old topics from time to time. Do you do that?
If so what are your reasons.

Personally I haven't done this and not a fan, I prefer to write follow up posts rather than republishing the old post. That way you will get a lots of new stuffs to write about, which have changed and also you will have a chance at reducing your bounce rate.

And by republishing it, do you mean completely copy/paste your old article? If I was a blogger I would not do that. I would most likely do what you do and do a follow up. Then again, if I was blogging I might just have said something different.

 

[xpl0iter]

Yes, completely copying and pasting the articles with adding one or 2 sentences which says like "this article was posted a long time ago.."

 

[JLogan]

Yes, completely copying and pasting the articles with adding one or 2 sentences which says like "this article was posted a long time ago.."

I don't get why you would do that. In wordpress, if you change the publish date, then you can bump it to the front page/"repost" it. I wouldn't do what you described above.

 

[xpl0iter]

I don't get why you would do that. In wordpress, if you change the publish date, then you can bump it to the front page/"repost" it. I wouldn't do what you described above.

I don't do it but I have seen this on man other reputed websites.

 

[Jordan]

I don't do it but I have seen this on man other reputed websites.

Ahh. Well I don't think it would be wise for a site to do it SEO wise. 2 different links, same content? Google would mark it as duplicated content.

 

[JLogan]

Ahh. Well I don't think it would be wise for a site to do it SEO wise. 2 different links, same content? Google would mark it as duplicated content.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Could definitely take a few chunks to talk about, but definitely not the whole post.

 

[xpl0iter]

I used to go to this pro blogger website which used to do this every now and then. I don't go there anymore so I don't know if they still do this!

I don't do it but I have seen this on man MANY other reputed websites.

 

[OhioTom76]

I was just reading about a tool for finding outdated content. Their suggestion was to search for sites with outdated content, then write fresh new accurate updated content on your own site - then reach out to the webmasters to let them know that you did the work and encourage them to update their own content with links back to your site for the new content (or they can cut and paste it on to their sites then include a credit backlinking to you).

The tool is below if interested:
http://www.greenlaneseo.com/outdated-content-finder/

 

[Shole]

I republish...well let me explain how.
For example we have a method of getting traffic that worked great in the past and I wrote about it.
Now that time passed and the method is still worth using, but you have to do things differently than before. So I quote my old article and just add the changes and make sure that people notice them

 

[JLogan]

I republish...well let me explain how.
For example we have a method of getting traffic that worked great in the past and I wrote about it.
Now that time passed and the method is still worth using, but you have to do things differently than before. So I quote my old article and just add the changes and make sure that people notice them

Have you experienced duplicate content issues from this?

 

[Shole]

Have you experienced duplicate content issues from this?

Nope, I dint , but that was about a year ago , this might not work that good as than... I had actually a slight increase in traffic, but well I might have hit a new highly searched topic than