After updating keywords in past posts
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I went back to some posts and changed some keywords. When these changes are updated, does WordPress ping these posts? Do these changes make any difference when it comes to getting my new keywords in the search engines?
Thanks,
Christine
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Probably not until the search engines reindex your site, which typically runs either on a 4 or 6 month cycle – at least for Google if I remember correctly.
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It takes that long for Google to reindex my site? I am always adding new posts. Doesn’t it index my blog every time I add a new post?
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It indexes regularly, but not the entire site, and I don’t think pings are sent out when you update an already published post.
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No, they are not. That’s why it’s a better idea to make new posts rather than continually edit older ones.
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If I delete the old post and create a new one, can I keep the new post in the same position as the old post? Or, will it show up as the most recent post? I don’t want readers to read a post they have already read before.
Also, if I did that, will I lose all the comments for that post? Or, is there a way to save the comments?
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No, the new post will start out at the bottom and it will be quite some time before the new one passes the old one, and in the meantime, all of the links in the search engines to the old post will be broken and return 404 not found errors which will cause your search engine rank to suffer.
All around a bad idea.
Yes you will lose all comments if you delete a post.
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Why would you do that? There’s nothing whatsoever you can possibly do with keywords that would be worth it. Nothing.
Remember, the benefit of keywords is they enable you to show up in searches. The SOONER you show up, the more valuable that is. Going back and adding keywords two weeks after the fact is almost entirely useless.
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