Comments on: Timeless Content on Your Blog

By: magento development

magento development — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:59:07 +0000

Totally agree. Though there are some topics on which you are just unable to write “timeless” articles. Good example here is f.e. when you are writing the article for the software under a particular version. Due to the nature of the article you just unable to write it in the “timeless” way, as you have to introduce the solution of some bug for the particular version of the software. But for other “general” topics it’s a good hint, thx.

By: Udegbunam Chukwudi

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:33:59 +0000

I’ve succeeded in ridding my blog posts and comments of dates. I’ll just have to monitor my traffic for a few weeks to see if it was the right move for me in terms of getting more clicks from the SERPS . Great post by the way

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:03:57 +0000

Ajith
Making content timeless is lovely idea, however it has more around how content can stay relevant for longer. It is indeed lovely work around the concept, cleared a lot for on basics for some people, I am sure of that.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:14:36 +0000

Thanks for your comment term paper. That’s the idea, we may not be able to keep blogging forever due to other pressing needs in life. Still, your blog should be able to drive traffic and add value to the readers…

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:13:28 +0000

Thanks buddy

By: Term Paper

Term Paper — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:15:51 +0000

Blog has to be timeless. These days, one gets very little time to update blog’s content on daily or weekly basis. Sometimes, we get time for 3 posts a week and some times, just 1 in a month. So, it’s better we move timeless in cyber world.

By: TechZoomIn

TechZoomIn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:48:57 +0000

Great article Ajith.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:06:19 +0000

@Nihar, Editing stale posts is step one and the other is removing timestamps on all pages

@Pramodh, thanks for the tweet buddy…

@Shanker, sometimes you could remove posts. In fact, I edited some posts that were indexed by Google but were conflicting with some of the later posts (e.g. hosting coupons etc). One option was to redirect it to latest post because the old updated posts were getting hits with good keyword optimization etc. If there’s no such new post to redirect, delete or change contents totally.

@Lee, exactly… depending on Google indexing, outdated content, optimized for search etc, you can take the right call.

@Rajiv, you have a great point there. Content for all generations is yet another good approach to make your stuff timeless.

@Jannie, editing the posts to include great introductory lines seem to be a great idea too. Thanks for that

@Teratips, Pillar posts definitely make ageless-timeless content… well, depends on the topic as well

@Kurt, yep, it’s a psychological thingie… I sometimes edit the beginning of the post as well to include a ‘Updated on’ stuff.

@SK, thanks buddy for the compliments.

Thank you all for wonderful views!

By: S.K Sharma

S.K Sharma — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:33:04 +0000

Yes good advice for re construct the blog content for new posts.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:37:51 +0000

Good list. Normally as a reader I often tend to favor articles recently written. When i see 2007 or 2008, it a bit like “uh its old”… i think its all psychological.. so i think one news related or trend post, showing the date is good..but for timeless one it is better to not show the date.

By: teratips

teratips — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:19:29 +0000

some of post make your blog’s pillars, I have also

By: Jannie Funster

Jannie Funster — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:53:03 +0000

Numero cinqo appeals to me most. Trimming the fat from outdated posts, especially in the first sentence to get straight to the heart of the content is something I’ve been doing a little of lately. Luckily I only have about 150 posts so far, so not too hard to do at this stage.

By: Lee Ka Hoong

Lee Ka Hoong — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:04:07 +0000

It’s not removing the outdated content but editing it. I’ve read one of the posts in Darren Rowse’s blog about editing older post, as you know our writing skills will be keep improving and our previous post’s writing skill will be low quality. So, we can just re-write the content to improve it, perhaps it also helps in search engine ranking for that page.

Regards,
Lee

By: moserw

moserw — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:12:42 +0000

Seems like changing date makes the content itself timeless. Not sure about it though. I would rather have content that will be relevant to all generations to make it timeless, but that’s just my way of thinking.

By: Shanker Bakshi

Shanker Bakshi — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:33:13 +0000

#5 Edit older posts to remove outdated content: is a good idea, but i don’t think you ever need to remove the outdated content. Should you?

By: pramodh

pramodh — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:04:03 +0000

Really helpful post… also retweeted…. learnt a lot from this… Thank You!!

By: Nihar

Nihar — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:54:11 +0000

Great post!

I have few posts which are old but get decent Search Engine traffic everyday.

I have also seen some blogs removing published time and date thing from the page to make it timeless content like you mentioned above.