re-posting as new
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Is there a way to “recycle” so to speak older posts as new posts, so that they will also post to the “freshly pressed” section? I had moved to wordpress from another blog host and half of my posts were from there. Id like to expose people to my older stuff in the updated posts without copy/pasting and deleting the old one and creating it again as a new post. Adjusting the published date will add it to my blog as a new post and at the top, but will not show up in the wordpress feed in the catagories as a new post.
any thoughts, or am i stuck copy and pasting? I was hoping to avoid having to make it a new post because i link internally and would have to go back and find all the references and change the links.
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http://en.support.wordpress.com/five-ways-to-get-featured-on-freshly-pressed/
Changing the date will not put a post at the top of the tags page where they look for the freshly pressed posts, so you may be stuck with copy and paste if you want your posts considered, but they only chose ten posts a day out of the many thousands of them here ar wordpress, so it might not be worth your while to do all that reposting.
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If you just want it to be a “new” post on your blog, then changing the dates should do what you want, but if you want it to show up as new on the global tags pages, then you probably need to copy and repost.
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This is a really, really bad idea. Search Engines will see this as the action of a spammer, and will downgrade your blog, because the “new” post will be identical to an “old” post they already have listed for your blog. And WP.com has been known to see this technique as tag spamming, as it does bounce your post up to the top of the tag pages. Staff have basically eliminated the blogs of people who do this from the tag pages entirely.
Your odds of getting on Freshly Pressed with old material are nil: staff can tell when something’s reposted. Write new, good stuff, and don’t do things that cause search engines or the tag pages to eliminate you. And keep your fingers crossed, as you are up against 30 million other WordPress.com blogs daily.
If you want to prominently feature older posts, I recommend using a theme with an Alert box and putting “Best of” in there with links to what you feel are your best posts. Or you can do the same in a text widget. If you have a theme with a custom menu, you can even put the links to the posts directly in the header.
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thanks rain, i think i will just make a spot with a text box. I wasnt looking to get on a main page, but since i imported my blog, the older stuff never was run through the tag menus, just wanted them out there. but if you think they may flag my site, i’ll stop and use the widget.
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You can go back and edit or change the tags on a Post – I did that with some of my early Posts that were not tagged very good (part of the learning curve)
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If they have tags, they’re on the tag page in the chronologically appropriate place. But you’re right, they never got to be on the front page of the tag pages. Not worth the chance, editing them. I’ve seen several blogs taken offline for that.
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@auxclass
When we experienced the “game the system” global tag page opportunists and their spamdexing antics many of us complained. Staff made a decision to put and end to the change the date stamp opportunists. It doesn’t matter how many times you change a date stamp the post will be displayed under the date of original publication.Other limitations were also introduced implemented that dis empowered the opportunists, who use large blocks or irrelevant tags – the same freaking 80 -100 tags – on each and every post they published. Halleluia! was my ecstatic refrain.
@truthinreligionandpolitics
You may want to read this section of support documentation that no one has posted a link to in this thread. :) http://en.support.wordpress.com/global-tags/#missing-postsThis may also be a helpful article for you. > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/07/13/wordpress-com-in-house-blog-promotion/
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Hmm, I didn’t realize that. I wonder if it’s related to the odd permalink issues that people have reported over the last couple of months. They seem to occur more when a post has been scheduled or updated.
Seems weird that posts now go out on RSS feeds every time they’re edited, when they didn’t before. So if you don’t change the date to bump your posts on the Tag pages, you can still spam your subscribers.
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@timethief – did not intend to suggest “gaming the system” – but when I moved my blog onto WordPress.com I followed some of the advice on how to properly tag a Post that was in the Forum – I had some Posts with maybe one tag – I had other Posts on the same subject that did not have matching Tags – so if you found one post on say Correcting a Compass that you can now find I think the 4 other Posts that have related subject material – and I was also very careful on the Tag + Category count.
I also had a few articles that I cleaned up and moved material to make things easier to read and find things –
Also the dates were never changed – I think I had one Post that I did a cut and paste of the whole Post to a new Post and reduced the old Post to a note that it was moved – that was because when I imported my site the import failed and a couple of Posts were given new slugs and I had some older material and the Staff was afraid to correct slugs inside the database.
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It’s ok – maybe I did not read things all way – but no damage done
maybe I added a bit –
One thing – after I did some adjusting to my Tags based on suggestions in the Forum it seems that visitors stay a bit longer on my site when they land on certain Posts.
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