How to Choose the Old Content for Rewriting?

It is important to choose the content for rewriting , don't randomly choose any content and rewrite. though there is no harm to take any piece of your content and apply this method, but here is few of suggestions which works best.

You need to choose strategically which posts you want to rewrite.

1.You need a list of all the old posts.

2.choose your posts based on

  • more in depth content
  • more sharable
  • higher conversion rate
  • better time on page
  • bounce rate and so on

The easiest way to get all these information is Google Analytics. On the next page, I will show you how to use Google Analytics to find out your most important pieces of content, that will be best for rewriting.



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PaulWatson Premium Plus
love this - thanks for the info.

Paul
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jivitajay Premium Plus
You are welcome Paul:)
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Funder Premium
Great lesson, thank you for sharing
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jivitajay Premium Plus
Welcome Nicole:)
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laparra1 Premium
Good afternoon Shubhaangi,

Thank you for this good lesson.
Since I have been doing Site Comments I am automatically redoing old posts.
I have this system which is the same for both my websites.
I make a list with all the posts that only have 2 comments. I start with the oldest and check if all is ok, add some more information, a book, and take care it has some links and also a backlink at the bottom.
When all is ok I ask for comments. Like that, I work myself up to the newest post. Then I will start a new list of posts which only have 4 comments.
Like this, I have been rotating everything and I am happy with the result.

Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
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jivitajay Premium Plus
Thanks Taetske
I think yours is a good strategy to update the posts, thanks for sharing.

Regards.
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dchapman3 Premium
Jay has a video training on re-purposing old content.
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jivitajay Premium Plus
Yes Donald,
I have given the link in the tutorial, actually following Jay's training on the repurposing, one of my posts ranked on Google page 1.

Regards
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ownonlboss Premium
Didn't think rewriting content with the same keyword would be a good idea, but you can probably write related keyword articles.

I am a big believer of repurposing content yes. Not so much republishing.

Steven
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jivitajay Premium Plus
Thanks Steve for stopping by and giving some great tips. Definitely going to help all of us.
Steve, I have only changed meta title, meta description, and first paragraph, and added some latest details.
Do you mean rewriting entire post? Pl correct me if I am wrong,

Regards
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