Deleting Content then adding it back

doogers · 10-05-2007, 12:19 PM

I often read that fresh content is important for SEO. I have a blog, faq, and article section where I try to add content everyday. I was wondering if I delete an article and then put it back on(like the next day) will this help with SEO? It can be a pain trying to think of new content all of the time. What do you think?

mcaronan · 10-05-2007, 12:34 PM

you've a point there.. based on what i've read, updating a site regularly with a set of juicy content will make your site rank higher. but what if you try to delete a content and after a week or so, you'll add it again... hmmm... i dont know what others will comment about this....

grace029 · 10-05-2007, 12:51 PM

Now I'm curious... what would happen if we do that..
Can it hurt our site??

bogs · 10-05-2007, 12:51 PM

you'll never know when spiders going to crawl your page... and same content? do you think spiders will going to treat that as a fresh content?

doogers · 10-05-2007, 12:52 PM

well if the content is nolonger there and you put it on again?

mcaronan · 10-05-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by doogers

I often read that fresh content is important for SEO. I have a blog, faq, and article section where I try to add content everyday. I was wondering if I delete an article and then put it back on(like the next day) will this help with SEO? It can be a pain trying to think of new content all of the time. What do you think?

The topic is really tricky. I hope someone expert would comment here.

coolguy27 · 10-05-2007, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by bogs

you'll never know when spiders going to crawl your page... and same content? do you think spiders will going to treat that as a fresh content?

Agree, why delete it then remove it....What's the big deal?

There are lots of articles out there... Just optimize it to avoid duplicate contents...

mcaronan · 10-05-2007, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by coolguy27

Agree, why delete it then remove it....What's the big deal?

There are lots of articles out there... Just optimize it to avoid duplicate contents...

Yep... That's right... There are many of articles that needs to be discover out there so why duplicate. But I'm thinking about the logic here, if google didn't notice this kind of flaws. hmmm...

it can be abuse by some people if so.. hehe

D3n!ss3_gÜrL · 10-05-2007, 01:21 PM

my eyes is rolling now...

you have a good point there doogers.

well, i have no idea but it make sense if that deleted content is installed back on the intention that it was in somehow edited or updated then spider might recognize it and give credit.

what do you think?

gcynet · 10-05-2007, 01:22 PM

I would say, don't delete it. Put new articles, there's plenty out there that you can use or write a new one yourself.

New stuff is great in terms of SEO but it also helps to have your site increase in size as well.

Waiting one day to put it back up won't help. Why? How often do spiders hit the site and how often do the search engines update their database. You basically have to wait for the search engine to delete that page from their database before you can put it back up for it to be considered as new content.

redeemer_spawn · 10-05-2007, 01:26 PM

sort of a good idea though I'm not so sure what gonna happen if it can help or it can be a harm

mcaronan · 10-05-2007, 01:41 PM

It is hard to estimate google to index a certain site, right??? But, there is still a chance that google can index a site with previously deleted content.. hmm...

doogers · 10-05-2007, 01:46 PM

Well on my site it would be easy to delete a FAQ and then put it back on even 2 weeks later. Im not going to do it, but it was just a thought. What if you change the content a little and then put it back on?

mcaronan · 10-05-2007, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by doogers

Well on my site it would be easy to delete a FAQ and then put it back on even 2 weeks later. Im not going to do it, but it was just a thought. What if you change the content a little and then put it back on?

Hmmm... I suggest a good timing will be a great help.. hehehe... anyways, just put new articles. it is way better, plus if you will do those things you'll loose your readers/subscribers.

doogers · 10-05-2007, 02:43 PM

So do you find articles and post them in your blog? Or do you write new articles?

scorpionagency · 10-05-2007, 04:17 PM

I think you are missing another important element here....

If you delete the content & there are other sites out there that had the same content, yet were placed in the Sub / Omitted section of the SERP's due to duplication, then you take the chance of letting one of them list & you being Omitted when you place the content back on.

Personally, I would leave the article / Content & get a little creative, write another article. I mean, who would want to come to a site that just rotates the same articles all the time anyways? Eventually they will realize, umm, hey i read this last week, Now you are risking losing a regular viewer due to repeat stale content.

No matter how you look at it, fresh Unique original content is the key to higher Repeat / Referral / Retention (3 R's of Business).

This is my opinion & it's up to you to listen or take it with a grain of salt. I mean, who am I amongst the Millions that may say otherwise?

P.S. Write your own articles, using others just gets the pages Omitted as duplicate content anyways.. Might as well have the Content & SERP's both on your side.

I wish you Luck...

bobchrist · 10-06-2007, 12:10 AM

If once the content get indexed by google I think you should not make any changes there even in title otherwise you may loss it from search.

x3mario · 10-06-2007, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by coolguy27

Agree, why delete it then remove it....What's the big deal?

There are lots of articles out there... Just optimize it to avoid duplicate contents...

Yep, you delete it, meaning it's not so important. Find more interesting article than the one you already deleted.

mcaronan · 10-06-2007, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by scorpionagency

Personally, I would leave the article / Content & get a little creative, write another article. I mean, who would want to come to a site that just rotates the same articles all the time anyways? Eventually they will realize, umm, hey i read this last week, Now you are risking losing a regular viewer due to repeat stale content.

No matter how you look at it, fresh Unique original content is the key to higher Repeat / Referral / Retention (3 R's of Business).

Yep... I agree to that.. Unique content is a must if you want to rank...

ezhel · 10-06-2007, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by doogers

I often read that fresh content is important for SEO. I have a blog, faq, and article section where I try to add content everyday. I was wondering if I delete an article and then put it back on(like the next day) will this help with SEO? It can be a pain trying to think of new content all of the time. What do you think?

Why not make another article and post it, it's like updating your site regularly. then deleting it and out back again, it's a waste of time and effort.