Comments on: Removing Old Posts: Common Practice?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:50:50 +0000

If the website owner has passed away, I would think that their hosting account will be cancelled……which would solve the problem. If the site is on a free hosting service, such as Blogger, Wordpress.com, etc…….you may be able to get it taken care of by contacting them. That’s a couple of ideas, but I really don’t know.

By: wen

wen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:17:45 +0000

how can i remove an old post from a web site that i did not post , that contains information about me that i don’t want public, if the person who posted it has died?

By: natalie

natalie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:46:44 +0000

I was just thinking about this topic the other day. I took a year break and just recently started writing on my personal blog again. It was interesting to read how you evolve as a blogger so I kind of liked having the old posts on there. However, at the same time I realize I was a really bad blogger back in 06 (at least I like to think I’ve learned a thing or two since it’s now my job) so I was thinking maybe I needed to clean house a bit. I came to the conclusion that I should keep the old entries because they have already been picked up by search engines. Now I’m thinking I’ll try the clean up theory Shane suggested.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:37:29 +0000

Changing the time post date.. might have a problem and give you some URL error when google checks your site.

Just be sure that nobody is attached with your post before removing it.

In my personal view it is not a problem to retain your old post. Thus your reader can know you more.

By: Jocko

Jocko — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:14:49 +0000

What I have been doing with posts that are no longer of current interest on my PenderBlog is to revise the date stamps to a month and year before the first post. I then reassign them the category “Archive” and add the header “First posted on “. This is a bit clumsy, but is a way of preserving past posts while getting ones no longer relevant out of the procession of posts.

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6 Ways To Make Your Archives Sing — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:07:06 +0000

[...] Blog More Powerful By Optimizing The Signal-To-Noise Ratio – an article commented on by Anthony at Antbag and Jon at Smart Wealthy Rich. Of particular interest is the suggestion of culling your archives. [...]

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:08:35 +0000

I completely agree. Especially a post whose purpose is to provide great info…….why not spruce it up if it needs it? That’s probably a much better bet than trashing it.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:02:41 +0000

Jon’s play about doing some rewriting of older posts is something I’ve been thinking about doing. I think a blah post with a good rewrite and some SEO could be more beneficial as far as bringing in search traffic and giving your readers a higher number of quality posts.

In a way this kind of flies in the face of how the old media rules operate … but then, this isn’t the old media.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:02:57 +0000

Zen Zoomie, Dave, and Aryst,

I want to welcome all you folks to my site, and thank you for adding to the discussion.

Zen Zoomie,

What you’re saying makes a lot of sense. It’s interesting to see how a blog has progressed over time……….especially when you can see the traffic growth along with more focused posts.

By: Zen Zoomie

Zen Zoomie — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:48:13 +0000

I’d like to second ClarkW’s opinion..I’d rather see pointers to the best stuff as opposed to cleansing a site of the less popular material.

I’m a chronic blog surfer, and one of my pet peeves is when I reading back through old posts and they reference other posts that are no longer there or have been removed. I like watching the evolution of the site…flipping through the old posts, including all the little updates, gives a good picture of how the Blog’s life has progressed. Even the old “our site was down last week” posts give a glimpse into that.