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I never did and never will give a hoot about SEO. I do strive for consistent structure for myself and anyone who wanders into my public internal monologue.

I keep old content around for historical markers. The historical blunders also have value. I add an aside, usually with annotation date, warning folks that the sample code might reformat your hard drive or start a land war in Asia if run as-is.

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2025-08-04 11:41:23

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Did you know that keeping old, outdated blog posts can damage your blog?

What do you do with your old blog posts?

Join the discussion.

#MondayBlogs #Blogging #BloggingTips

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Same here. My blog isn't a resource for other people. If anyone wants to read it (including the old posts) they're welcome but I don't seek to "engage" (let alone monetise).
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@irina my blog *has* been a resource for other people—related: I used to have a t-shirt that read "I'm not completely useless / I can always be used as a cautionary tale "—which encouraged me to focus on consistency and public updates.

But yeah. SEO, monetization, feedback via anything but email and social media? Those are for other sites.

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@irina I have rarely come across a blogger who does not want to engage with others. Those that don't want to engage turn off comments. Most of the bloggers I have come across, want to engage and blog for engagement. But I understand that some people prefer not to. After all, there are plenty of other online platforms to connect with others.
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Irina
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It's not that I deliberately don't *want* to engage, but it's not *for* that; for a conversation there are other places, as you said (like here). I have comments on but I don't mind not getting any. I don't feel obliged to make anything I wrote however many years ago more up-to-date or more engaging, though I have reposted a couple of posts from my older blog that went down with the old server because I wanted to be able to point people to them.
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I have blogged in pursuit of conversation (although it's been years since I've gotten any) but I assume conversation is not the same thing as "engagement." I never put any effort into "consistency" or "public updates" as those (to me) reek of "professionalism." Once bloggers started actually writing about writing to a schedule I knew the blogosphere that I loved so much was doomed. And so it is that now we have "newsletters."

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@lori I have many discussions on my blog but I always try and encourage readers to engage with me. Some do, but I have many readers who don't want to engage. They have their valid reasons. But if I was blogging without any feedback or contact with fellow bloggers, I'd feel I was talking to empty space. As for 'newsletters' I don't subscribe to any.
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