SEO Benefits of Content Freshness
Having fresh content is essential for SEO. While it may help increase click-through rates, it doesn't affect the overall rankings. The same applies to content quality. A new or updated post has more potential to convert than an old one.
Similarly, people tend to click on new content when it's fresh. So, if you're trying to maximize your SEO, be sure to keep fresh, relevant, and exciting content.
You must keep your content fresh to improve your search engine rankings. A new or recently updated post can help your site rank higher. By creating fresh content, you're increasing the chances of a high-quality audience.
At the same time, the older the content, the more likely users will be to click on it. However, the fresher the text is, the higher its chance of attracting search engines. A recent blog post will also attract Google's attention.
I have a question, regarding this "Make a habit of going to 6 months or older posts and polishing and updating them, then resubmitting them to Google Search Console to be crawled again."
I thought google search console is for the whole website and no need to submit it again for every post? Can you help me more with this, please? Thanks a lot!
Like last week I wrote an in-depth review on online crafting courses, and including the research and such, it took me three days to get it well written, look for good images, have nice call-to-action- buttons, do the SEO, publish on all social media, etc.
Also I had to get some traffic for a new video, come up with a good text for that video, write a new newsletter, start thinking about the next blogpost, do that research, etc.
If I can manage 2 new blog posts per week, that is a lot for me.
Am I doing too much to make it 'perfect' and of good quality?
What I also do is check out the competition that is ranking high on the same topic, and try to do better than them, answering even more questions than they do. And maybe this is why it is taking me so much time :-)
How you guys manage 3 or more new posts per week,is amazing to me, fantastic!
That floored me and REALLY opened my eyes to the amount of work I should be doing updating my own posts to keep the information relevant.
Darlene
PS - he didn’t actually call them “minions”