{"id":4352,"date":"2011-12-27T20:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T01:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2011-12-27T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T01:59:13","slug":"some-blogging-advice-continually-update-your-old-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/27\/some-blogging-advice-continually-update-your-old-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Blogging Advice: Continually Update Your Old Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t given any &#8216;blogging&#8217; advice in a long time. And whom and I to give it?<\/p>\n<p>But I have noticed one little thing that can help get your posts a little edge. Maybe it&#8217;s this increasingly &#8216;real-time&#8217; World, or maybe they&#8217;ve always done it, but Google is so much constantly crawling, that when your content changes, even on an older post, the Google &#8216;bot&#8217; almost immediately notices and comes running to check it out. So in this &#8216;timely&#8217; World, it could get you a spot on the top or at least on the front page of results, for your particular topic. In other words, one gets the since that &#8216;timeliness&#8217; is increasingly an ingredient in the secret &#8216;sauce&#8217; of Page Rank.<\/p>\n<p>Also I&#8217;ve noticed another benefit: It sort of gives you a sense of continuum and wholeness to your ideas if you&#8217;re keeping them alive in this way. In other words, if you add to them when some new material arises, simultaneously your subsconscious goes to work, &#8216;effortlessly&#8217; bringing you some new creativity and synthesizing your main ideas, perhaps by doing it&#8217;s own &#8216;crawling&#8217; in the otherwise overlooked areas of your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t given any &#8216;blogging&#8217; advice in a long time. And whom and I to give it? But I have noticed one little thing that can help get your posts a little edge. Maybe it&#8217;s this increasingly &#8216;real-time&#8217; World, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/27\/some-blogging-advice-continually-update-your-old-posts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,92],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-minute-tips","category-blogging-tech","tag-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}