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Created by Rukky @ Eternity Books & Dani @ Literary Lion, Let’s Talk Bookish is a segment where discuss certain topics, share our opinions, and spread the love by visiting each other’s posts every Friday.
This week’s prompt: Updating Old Blog Posts (Suggested by Nicole @ Thoughts Stained With Ink)
Prompts: Do you ever go back and update older content on your blog? For instance, after getting new graphics or going self-hosted? Why or why not? Do you sometimes curate/clear out old posts that you no longer want published, or rewrite/update them? Do you think people should periodically clean up their old content and update/delete things that don’t align with their current positions/beliefs?
I’ve been blogging and writing for almost eight years now. Between all of that time, and the two hiatuses I went on, I don’t feel the need to go through every post and update old blog posts. Sometimes, I’ll look back on the really old ones and I have the urge to update them, but then again, I like how simple and plain my writing was back in 2014, 2015. When I had first started, I didn’t know anything about blogging, writing, SEOs, headlines and stuff. I thought that was only suited for professional journalists.
But as I grew into my writing, I began to look at my past posts as mini journal entries. I sometimes cringe at my old writing, the way I used certain words and flowery language to sound smarter than I was. Even the graphics and fonts I’d used back in the day were simplistic than how they are now.
However, if I see that there has been a little more engagement and comments from a particular post, then of course I’ll update old blog posts. But not to the super old posts that not a lot of people pay attention to.
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That’s such a positive way to look at your old content. I always look back on mine and cringe a lot and have this strong urge to wipe them from existence. However, I just try to ignore them, because I don’t want to do something that I might regret later. And I also wonder that in a few years, I’ll probably cringe at my current posts just as much as I now do to my older ones.
Great post Danielle!
Thank you so much, Rukky! To tell you the truth, when I was transitioning from Blogger to WordPress, I actually deleted a lot of my old content. I needed some room to grow into my newer self, you know? But at least I didn’t delete everything so I can have something to look back on.
I don’t update old posts except for broken links. Some of the posts I’d like to update the SEO on, but I just don’t have the time. Plus I like seeing the evolution of my writing.
Hi Ashley! Same here. I like seeing my evolution too.
Pretty much the same for me; I’ve changed the banner before- but that was because on free WP the media space was so limited that I would fear i’d run out of place.. which is not really an issue now that i’m self-hosted.
I keep obsessively look through my old post to see if I have something similar to my post idea however 😅 though i’m well aware that repeats are not a big deal usually as even a year after things might’ve had change and well- either the followers won’t even remember the old one, but most wouldn’t had read the first one to begin with!
I’ve never used free WP, just went from Blogspot to self-hosted WP, which was a big adjustment for me. That is something I’ve been curious about too, having an old and new post have the same idea. But I guess as your mind changes and evolves, so does your writing. 🙂
exactly!
better writings, different ideas..
There some post I would like to update the graphic on but no one seems to look at my older post or if they do they don’t comment on it.
I took down a lot of my older book reviews bemuses looking back at them my writing was so cringing when I started blogging.
Yeah old posts can look cringy sometimes lol 😆 I haven’t thought of changing graphics though. That’s a new thought! Thanks for sharing.