Should I Update the Publish Dates on Old Posts on My Blog?

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today's question comes from Andrea, who asks about blog content audits. Should she change post dates? Should she remove seasonal posts? Andrea's site is http://www.goodhealthgirl.com/. Andrea discussing Smart Passive Income Podcast Session 200, where Todd Tresidder and I discussed content audits (http://smartpassiveincome.com/session200). Here's the updated post I discuss: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/the-most-important-conversation-ive-had-about-my-business-ever/. Do you have a question about content audits? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is Freshbooks. Go to http://www.GetFreshBooks.com and enter "Ask Pat" for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	What up, ask pat.com.
0:07.0	What up, everybody, Pat Flynn here, and welcome to episode 666 of Ask Pat.
0:16.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.5	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days
0:20.4	a week.
0:23.1	We have a great question here from Andrea, but before we get to that,
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0:56.4	sure you enter Ask Pat and how did you hear about a section. All right. Now here's today's
1:00.3	question from Andrea. Hi Pat. It's Andrea from Bermuda. I'm a holistic nutritionist and my website
1:06.8	is goodhealthgirl.com. I listened to your SPI podcast last week about doing a content
1:13.3	audit, and this is something I've been thinking about doing for a while, and it needs to be done.
1:18.3	Some of my previous blog posts are off-brand or just not good or just something I don't even
1:24.7	want on there anymore. So when it comes to republishing some of the content, should I change the date to 2016,
1:34.7	even if it was published in 2014?
1:37.2	I'm not sure what to do about this.
1:40.8	Also, I have a lot of seasonal posts on my blog like healthy Super Bowl snacks and Christmas
1:49.9	brunch recipes. Are these things that should be on my site all the time or are seasonal
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