Comments on: Optimizing Old Blog Titles

By: pfincome

pfincome — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:00:24 +0000

One thing I would add (may be a little out of scope) is that I would give anything to go back and remove dates from my permalinks. I choose early on to include the date in the links for my posts. If you want to write long lasting articles, I think it is important to remove any references to dates that you can. I know that when I search on a topic, I will always choose to read one that is the most current.

By: SimplyForties

SimplyForties — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:50:55 +0000

@dawn – I just tested this out with my Blogger blog and it does work. Once the post is published the name is set as far as the URL is concerned. If you go back and change the title of the post, it doesn’t change the original URL, so your links shouldn’t be affected. Great advice, I’m taking another look at my old blog posts!

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:44:01 +0000

@Dawn, I haven’t been on Blogger in a while. Does it offer the ability to have a different post title and post URL (permalink or slug)? If not, changing the post title will affect links to older posts, and you don’t want to do that.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:00:34 +0000

What about those people who have blogger and others have linked to the older titles as those links will no longer work? This seems like you are starting over in a sense.

By: Writer's Coin

Writer's Coin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:08:52 +0000

Great tip! I never thought of doing this but it makes sense. And thanks for addressing the permalink stuff because I was curious about that.