Although your focus in marketing may be to always continue creating new content, there are some benefits to revamping old content. Some of your best content may Perform well and get tons of qualified traffic but it is no longer affecting your Ranking. Other content may be under performing and not helping your website in any way.

Making a few changes to old content can help you boost your ranking again and get better performance out of content that hasn’t had much impact. It can be helpful to revitalize old content because Google likes to see that content is current and has been more recently published. Old content may not perform well in the search engine results simply because it isn’t recent enough to get a good ranking.

Re-publishing old content with some changes can give you a quick boost in your ranking and even help double your traffic. When you update the publish date on an old blog post Google will recognize it as new content and give your site a higher ranking accordingly. You can keep content fresh by changing its format such as turning a blog with high traffic into a YouTube video or turning a video into a blog.

Diversifying one piece of content by changing it into different formats online is an easy way to keep content that performs well and take full advantage of it. You can also make changes for old content that didn’t perform as well using strategies that you have more experience with now. You may be able to get more results out of underperforming content by retooling it and publishing it again.

Although much of your old content can still be useful you do not need to re-publish everything. Choose content that you believe is still relevant and will work to boost your ranking again if you bring it back and you will see better results.

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