Throughout the year some of you may have seen SEO tips telling us how good it is to put the year in the post title. So you may have posts with titles like this:

The best non-itchy underwear of 2017

(Or maybe not). But the important thing here is the year. We are getting close to the new year, and in a few days your post that appeared current for the whole 2017 will be outdated.

So how can you fix this? Of course, you can write another post. But there is a way to refresh your old post and make it a brand new 2018 post.

I will go through the steps you need to do to make this happen. It will include:

  1. How to change the post heading and permalink
  2. How to change the post date to make it look new
  3. Telling Google what you did
  4. Some issues you must be aware of before you do this
  5. And finally, a conclusion

Please read through ALL of the training before you start doing these changes, to make sure you understand everything involved. Even if it's possible to do this change, there is a chance that you will choose not to.



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N33 Premium
Thank you again John. I am reading your information twice and wanted to make sure I understand the following : if I have a very bad ranking doing this without redirection could be a new chance ?
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JHaugland Premium
If you do it without redirection, it will be as if you do a new post.
To improve the ranking you should look at the keywords and maybe rewrite the whole article.

But ranking is not a constant. And bad ranking is also ranking.You can do both, rewrite the article and edit heading/permalink and improve ranking on the updated article and add to whatever ranking you already had.
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N33 Premium
Thanks John.

"Bad ranking is also ranking" I will put this above my eyes, did you know you are charming ?
You made my day...
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JHaugland Premium
hehe thanks :)
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drcmaint Premium
Thanks for this.
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JHaugland Premium
Thank you as well
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N33 Premium
Thank you John. Now I know how to beginn the new year.
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JHaugland Premium
Thanks
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MKearns Premium
Good way to get a recharge Jorn. Thank you!
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JHaugland Premium
Thanks
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khoula Premium
Thank you for sharing
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JHaugland Premium
Thank you as well
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BlSt Premium
This is a wonderful training. I have bookmarked it to return to it later.

Thanks a lot
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JHaugland Premium
Thank you
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BlSt Premium
UWC
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