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Building New Links on Old Pages

By on January 29, 2012

I make a full time income from building new links on old pages. This might be directly or indirectly. The new links might be internal links or they might be affiliate links. Either way, the links will be pointing to some page that could possibly make me money.

I recently wrote an article about earning extra money by going back and optimizing your posts. This does not just apply to internal linking because in this article I am focusing on just building or adding a new link on old pages.

Now there is always some controversy about building new links on old pages. People often say that it is not worth it and Google does not take any notice of your old pages. This is not true as I have been doing this for years and have very old articles still ranking at the top of the search engines.

To tell the truth, I could not afford for some of these articles to fall out of the search engine rankings, as they make me too much money. It is not easy to come across content that can make you money so you need to care for it and update it often.

Building new links on old pages – Why?

There are many reasons why you would want to start building new links on old pages, however I will give you a few of my own personal reasons.

  • The old page is related to a piece of new content that you have published.building new links on old pages
  • The old page is still getting great traffic and you want to add a link to sell something.
  • The old page needs jazzing up.

Now if you are building internal links, you basically want Google to crawl the old page you have just placed the new link on. Therefore you need to change the page or add new content to make it look fresh, allowing Google to notice it again. It is an art and is a lot like restoring an old car to enter a competition. You want the car to be noticed and appreciated.

A great way to do this is to simply add a new paragraph of relevant information or expand on one you already have.

On the other hand, if you are adding an affiliate link to your old pages, then you would not be worried about re-indexing, you would be more worried about getting more traffic to your affiliate link. Of course re-indexing helps but we can also survive on existing traffic.

What do others have to say about building links on old pages?

Watch this video as it mentions some more interesting details about building  new links on old pages.

Of course I love taking advice from SEOMoz, not because they are famous, but because they make total sense.

Tim Grice  did a study about this and concluded that there was no point building new links on old pages and less you to get the page re-indexed by Google. I am fine with that because I like to keep my best content updated anyway.

Add fresh content to your old pages

I am continually adding fresh content to old pages for search engine optimization. In fact this is the exact reason that I can dominate Google search results for so many different keywords.

For example if I see that our pages traffic is dropping, will work on it and bring it back to life. This will get the old page on Google’s radar and they will want to check it out again. I also like to keep comments enabled, even on older posts, as this brings in free fresh content. Continual comments proves that your content has no used by date.

Therefore, as stated in the video above, when making new links on old pages, it is definitely better to get your old page re-indexed by Google. This means that the page gets crawled and the new links you have just made get followed to the new page.

To enforce all of this and make sure my new links on old pages are acknowledge, I also build some new back links to the old page. This follows with my theory of pretending that it is new content. Basically I am promoting each new article anyway.

Social share you old page

Share your old post like it is new. Pretend that it is fresh content and you want to share it with everyone. If your post is really worth sharing, change the date that you published it to today’s date so it shows up on your front page. This only works if you have no date factors included in your WordPress permalink structure.

Get the Tweet old posts free and have this plug-in randomly choose an old post and Tweet it for you.

Of course you need to make sure you have social media buttons installed on your website to allow your visitors to share your content. All of this will increase web traffic to your old posts.

 Have you tried building new links on old pages? What was the outcome?

About mitz

My name is Milica Pantic but everyone calls me Mitz. I am addicted to internet marketing and making money online. Who wouldn't want to live that life? I started out with one website as a hobby and now have over 20. Building websites and making money online is not that hard. You have to actually take action to make money...that is the biggest hurdle! :)

88 Comments

  1. Julidarma

    January 27, 2013 at 1:52 am

    I usually use certain plugin to make link to old post. This is very helpful

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  2. Molly Groman

    July 30, 2012 at 5:17 am

    This is really amazing Mitz, I was under the impression that once the page is old, it simply lies there until there is better content. This tweaking the old post is certainly a very fresh idea, I have posted a lot of content earlier and a lot of them has good rankings. I am not sure whether I will be able to edit them or not..

    Tell me one thing, how do you edit the old article posted or press release posted? coz the press release service that i use doesn’t allow me to do the edit
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    • mitz

      July 30, 2012 at 10:45 am

      Hi Molly
      Some article sites let you edit and resubmit your article but this post above is mostly about editing posts on your own website.

      Reply

  3. Magali

    June 22, 2012 at 12:27 am

    I love the Tweet Old Post plugin and plan on using it on my new blog as soon as it has a decent amount of content.
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  4. Jack

    April 4, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    Very interesting, I have to admit I’m one of the people who doesn’t build manually links to old pages. But I did realise recently it has been causing my rankings to drop. One page’s pagerank was 4 but after a year it has dropped to a 2! That’s significant change. Search Engines look for a naturalistic link profile, so yeah they do suspect if you get just one link blast at a time and you don’t get any more with passage of time.

    The 80/20 rule works wonders with this. It may not be possible to keep building new links to all pages but you can find out which 20% of the pages are bringing 80% of the income, and maintain top rankings for them by building new links.
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    • Jessie

      April 6, 2012 at 2:04 pm

      Great point, especially considering the recent updates with Google Panda. I firmly believe that building links in a natural way is the way forward. So many people have been hit with the recent ALN updates after they got a bit greedy and built links from spammy sites too quickly.

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  5. Maja

    April 5, 2012 at 2:43 am

    Linking your old post to the new post can be helpful in ranking of site if they have keywords.Site will instantly visible in organic searches.
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  6. Keith Irvine

    April 3, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    I have worked on linking on old pages and have found amazing response and traffic for my website. I was always in worried that working on this old pages wont be helpful for me. But when I saw the result i got the confidence that even old pages has the power to boost your results.

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  7. Danica Green

    April 1, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    This one is a great strategy for making your old post useful. Not all old posts are irrelevant to the present issues and needs of the market that’s for this reason it is a smart thing to recycle your post so new visitors could still read your old post.

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  8. Steven

    March 14, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    This is a good strategy I use myself constantly, and as you say it works despite what many people say. The same goes for a lot of SEO techniques (people will say it’s outdated when it’s not). My theory for this is they haven’t really experimented with any supposed algorithm changes to begin with, or they’re ready as sheep to follow what their “A List” SEO masters tell them.

    Great post mitz with some top advice that is still relevant to SEO even in 2012 and no doubt will continue to be for many years.

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  9. John

    March 12, 2012 at 8:27 am

    Updating content on otherwise stale pages is the key. I used to make the mistake of not keeping tabs on my successful, but older, pages.

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  10. Ming

    March 1, 2012 at 1:45 am

    This is something that I haven’t done enough though I need to do it for quite a few of posts mainly because there are needs to update more relevant content. Also, it is a good practice to monitor the old posts to point links to the new relevant posts so that people will be able to read more from your blogs.

    Cheers,
    Ming
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  11. Jeremy

    February 18, 2012 at 3:41 am

    This sounds like a very powerful strategy. There are bound to be lots of older pages on a blog that you still want to promote. Earlier this week I published a post which I think could convert well, but unfortunately my blog is very new. So by using these strategies, I should be able to periodically make some changes to that page and make the search engines think that page is fresh content. I can see how it would be useful to use a wp plugin that automatically tweets older posts from the archives.
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  12. Annette Golphin

    February 16, 2012 at 10:43 am

    I never thought about this building new links on old pages. I agree that building new links on old pages still can generate traffic and to add something that you want to sell online.
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  13. Tan

    February 10, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    Instead of do it manual, maybe you should consider to install plugin like SEO smart link +
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  14. Matt Steffen

    February 10, 2012 at 4:37 pm

    Great post. I love what you said about needing certain older pages because of the money they make you. I try to update these pages at least twice a week. But what is the bare minimum of content you can add that Google will recognize as “fresh content?”
    Matt
    New Jersey Marketing Company
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    • mitz

      February 11, 2012 at 9:05 am

      There is no definite rule here as Google changes their ways every day. The only way to tell is to do it and see if it works. It like riding a wave, they are very unpredictable and different all the time.
      This would also depend on your blog..Is it active and getting crawled a lot or is it lifeless? An active blog would probably have to do less to get noticed.

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  15. Patricia

    February 9, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    Hi Mitz

    I agree with you. Just revamped my site, rewrote older articles (have learnt more about SEO) and they are getting visitors who haven’t read the posts before.

    Retweeting these posts also sees traffic coming in and new readers too. Definitely worth updating older posts; especially when they are good content.

    Patricia Perth Australia
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  16. Brankica

    February 7, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    I do this often too. Not to mention that the last time my blog broke I had to go through each and every post to fix stuff so while doing that I just updated them all with new info if necessary and added some links to new pages. I just like to keep a flow and sometimes, I write posts today that a post from 3 months ago could use. So I help myself and the readers :)

    Love the post!
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  17. Adrian

    February 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    How can I easy swap my host? Where are the best themes? Need to try change one beacause still struggling to get a traffic for my web. Thanks

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  18. Christian Hofer

    February 7, 2012 at 9:06 am

    Very interesting – I am new to this so I have never thought about it quite frankly. Is there any knowledge out there on how much one needs to update a post to get it indexed again? This would be very helpful.Thanks for the tips – this will be very useful!

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    • mitz

      February 7, 2012 at 4:14 pm

      Updating the info and adding a few small paragraphs should do it.. Also maybe a few links to it too…

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  19. Becca

    February 6, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    Every time I read your post i always learn a lot from it and some of your tips
    I already apply to by current business.
    Thanks much Mitz! keep on posting.

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  20. Jeanne R. Weiss

    February 3, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    Hi Mitz,

    So that;s explains why sometimes blogs are dated as new but the comments are old. Great strategy! I will try this with my web.
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  21. Peter

    February 3, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Hi Mitz,
    i enjoyed your video very much!I have never consider building links on “old” pages because i thought people wouldn’t visit them.Now, after what you posted, i look forward doing it and hopefully i will get some good results!

    Reply

  22. John

    February 3, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    Hi Mitz,
    That affect to my page rank when i add more paragraph or links ?

    Thanks,

    Reply

  23. ATYQ

    February 3, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    If you make a link to an old page, it refreshes the old part of your website… No?
    Thank for this post.
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  24. Joey

    February 3, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    The video which you have posted is very informative. It is a good idea to build new links on old posts. The posts on popular topics can really prove profitable if we build new links in them to get more traffic to the desired sites. I think this will be highly effective and guaranteed desired results can be achieved. It is good to way to earn some profit by making use of old posts. Thanks for sharing your useful tips with us!

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  25. Isaac Sarayiah

    February 3, 2012 at 9:14 am

    Hi
    First may I congratulate you on your Alexa ranking. I launched my blog in late August 2011 and at time of writing it is now ranked in the top 650k sites in the world – a jump of over 27m places in just over 5 months. I am now getting over a 1000 hits a week – but I get few comments.

    I am trying to help people change their way of thinking and problem solving using my unique experiences so they can challenge the status quo and “be FREE be ALIVE be Truly HAPPY.”

    As regards adding new content to ‘old’ pages I can see why that would be beneficial but I think with my site that would be very difficult to do.

    Would be grateful for your advice and what you think – my site is http://www.theSarayiahpost.com

    Happy New Year and have a wonderful day.
    Love
    Isaac Sarayiah
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  26. Chris

    February 3, 2012 at 7:15 am

    I have never even thought about doing this until now… Great idea! I know sometimes when I publish new pages or posts on my website, I remember an older post that is related that would be a great source to link to the new page. Great tips!
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  27. James

    February 2, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    I would say it depends on your long term strategy. I don’t agree that the posts would be irrelevant because of the year in which you published it. Old content such as top ten lists can be useful for link building even after they become current trends. Top Ten Toys of 2009 or Top Ten Toys of 2008 can actually become more interesting over time, and you can even provide links within the current list to say ‘See last years list’. In 5 to 10 years they can actually be quite fun to look back on. Its just an opinion and obviously totally dependent on the nature of the topic at hand.
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  28. Abdullah Khan

    February 3, 2012 at 4:56 am

    I am also in this business for quite a long period of time, building new links by various methods possible. I would like to also appreciate the work you do

    Thanks
    Abdullah
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  29. rohit kothari

    February 3, 2012 at 4:33 am

    Hi Mitz,
    I totally agree with you. Building links to the new pages doesn’t only help them crawl, but it also assist us to gain better rank in SERP results. and there is one plugin called SEO smart link use that plugin to reduce your labor. it really help full for me early i use to edit it manually
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  30. Tim

    February 2, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    I often wondered about spicing up old pages, I always felt like I would mess something up. In otherwords if I had a page one rank, but not at the top. I was always afraid to go after the top spot fearing I would lose the page one position. I think I will try this on some old pages and see how it goes. Thanks for the info.
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  31. Jeo

    February 2, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    As the old saying goes ‘Old is Gold’. It is a good idea to build links on the old posts. But I think it is important to build new links on the old but popular posts. It will prove beneficial for getting those extra pennies. As we are aware that popular posts never run out of visitors, it will be profitable to build new links on them. Thanks for making realizing this! I never realized this earlier.

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  32. Joyce Cooper

    February 2, 2012 at 12:44 am

    I’ve been using the “add new content to old pages” for some time. It works really, really well plus it forces you to keep your content in order.
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  33. Jeff

    February 2, 2012 at 6:25 am

    Just the one tip you note about adding fresh content to old pages can do wonders for reviving some dead pages. Thanks for the recommendation on “Tweet Old Post” plugin…that’s a gem!!
    Cheers!
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  34. Steve

    February 2, 2012 at 3:28 am

    Mitz,

    You are absolutely right. Old posts NEED to be reviewed and reworked. Perhaps not -constantly- but at least with some regularity. This has positive benefits in many ways and the added interlinking and sales can really make it worthwhile.
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    • mitz

      February 2, 2012 at 8:38 am

      Hi Steve
      Great to see you here! Yeah we can’t let the best pages die..Also they are great to use for SEO. I guess every page has a value, even if it does not make money. :)

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  35. Dennis Marshall

    February 1, 2012 at 11:56 pm

    Thanks for the tip on the plugin.. I was looking for a plugin like that…. I was sick of having to throw all my tweets in Tweetadder that linked back to my old posts..

    How do get google to reindex your site? Is this something that just happens or do I have to ping it to let google know that my site (or blog post) has something new?
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    • mitz

      February 2, 2012 at 8:40 am

      You get an old post re-indexed by drawing attention to it… Promoting it, adding fresh content to it, and so on.. When you get loads of content there will be a huge maintenance job to keep everything fresh. :)

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      • Dennis

        February 2, 2012 at 10:12 am

        Oh I can’t wait… I’m going to do this tomorrow. Freshen up some old posts.

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      • Chris

        February 8, 2012 at 3:21 pm

        I started refreshing old posts and stopped about 30 minutes later. It’s a LOT of work, but I suppose the end results might be worth it. Maybe I’ll pick back up later this week. :P
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        • mitz

          February 8, 2012 at 10:07 pm

          Yes I probably do 2-3 every week and I choose them by popularity. Or sometimes I link to old posts from new posts but always check the old post to see if it is ok. Managing a blog is very detailed work. We need to do what we can to get every bit of traffic possible.

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  36. Becca

    February 1, 2012 at 10:33 pm

    I agree, SeoMoz really a great help when it comes to Seo. They explain everything clearly, all
    what you want to know on Seo implementation.
    I also enjoy reading your post which also a great help for me. That’s why I keep coming back
    and taking all your tips here.

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  37. Danny

    February 1, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    Yeah, it’s very wise to keep old pages fresh and liked by Google. If you got a winner you need to let it run for as long as possible. And it’s a lot easier to let a winner run, then to try to change a post that is not a winner into a winner.
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  38. John Cooper

    February 1, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    Recently I was reading an article about integration of text and video on blog. Your post is a great illustration of using both text and video. Its well written with an informative video. Its a nice idea to update older content with new information. This not only gives new article but also re-indexes on Google.
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    • mitz

      February 1, 2012 at 5:53 pm

      Yes I am a big fan of keeping my content up to date and working for me year after year. Some content is priceless! :)

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  39. Bryan Ring

    February 1, 2012 at 3:19 pm

    I love it! How more spot on then that can you be? I took most of the old posts off my FREE WP blog and refreshed most of them. Refreshing the titles, links and content and placed them on my Paid WP-site, and they’re being tracked right….about….NOW!
    I’ve left my FREE blog open and have added fresh content to smaller posts and one way linked them to my paid WP-Site. I’d say don’t be fooled about the FREE site as you will see some traffic their also.
    Awesome stuff Mitz!
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  40. Dan Lew

    February 1, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Sounds good to be true. I see the possibility of the old blog posts outranking the new ones. I get constant sales from my old review pages than the new ones, and I should update them as well. It’s worth to build links on your old posts, because it might improve your rankings on Google.

    Cheers!
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  41. PauliusR

    February 1, 2012 at 6:34 am

    Everyone should constantly review and update their posts that rank well. It’s true that you can’t afford to loose positions and interest in those topics. Especially when you are trying to sell things, make sure the information is fresh and useful.
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  42. Katie Woodard

    February 1, 2012 at 5:30 am

    I think this is a great idea. I only get a few hits a day on old posts, but I could drastically increase my page views if I made links for old pages to increase my SERPs. I’m going to try this and see if my page views increase any.
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  43. Melissa

    February 1, 2012 at 5:06 am

    The video is very informative and clear at the same time! Here we an find answers to all questions that deal with links on old pages! Many thanks for it
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  44. sai krishna

    January 31, 2012 at 6:57 am

    very nice explanation mate :) cool pointing view .. totally i’m agree with you :) keep sharing more interesting articles with us
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  45. Amber Lee

    January 31, 2012 at 12:18 am

    You explained your thoughts clearly but I think it’s difficult to use the old pages. Thus, I agree about the updating your contents. Can you post more about this stuff?

    Thanks for your interesting thoughts.

    Amber Lee
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  46. Joe

    January 31, 2012 at 6:31 am

    Hey Mitz.

    I use a plugin called SEO smartlinks, and it basically works like this. Whenever you write something that matches another article post OR page, it will automatically link to it. Its a very nice way to automate the process of back linking to an old article, as you just need to mention the title.

    -Joe
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  47. Rick Castro

    January 30, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    It is important to update previous blog posts especially if it is outdated. Mitz is right with the idea of building links to previous posts!

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  48. Matt Kinsella

    January 31, 2012 at 12:42 am

    I constantly see 8 year old pages out ranking my new ones that have much more relative content so Google loves old pages, it’s just down to the links obviously. Good advice.
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  49. Richard

    January 30, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    I haven’t thought of this for the past months of my blogging career. I always do it the other way around. Whenever I create a new post, I link it to the old pages instead. So whenever someone misses the old information, they can easily go to it. And it helps in my bounce rate I guess.

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  50. Adeline

    January 30, 2012 at 10:56 pm

    I’m in the process of doing just that and agree with the fact that old pages get great traffic and its a great way to promote something significant.
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  51. Sagar

    January 30, 2012 at 9:33 pm

    Building links to old pages is very difficult, but yes adding some new content or modifying the contents and sharing them might help a lot, this specially applies to pillar posts.
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  52. Herniawan

    January 30, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Old post can be use for get link for new article. It caused old post have indexed by search engine so that the new article which linked from old article will indexed quickly .

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  53. Herniawan

    January 30, 2012 at 10:57 am

    absolutly true that old post can be use for get link for new article. It caused old post have indexed by search engine so that the new article which linked from old article will indexed quickly .

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  54. Prakash

    January 30, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Hi Mitz,
    building links in old pages just not because of two or three reasons. Its true the old pages still getting much traffic. I think there are lost of other factors present what makes us to build links in old pages.
    Nice article mitz, thanks for this one.
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  55. Deep

    January 30, 2012 at 9:00 am

    Well as far as the fact that Google does not notice old pages is concerned it is not really true if you have made significant changes to your text Google re-indexes them.
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  56. johnavery

    January 30, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    Looking at the title i was thinking why?.Very well explained or substantiated article. seeing your expertise absolutely agree that you make a full time income from building new links on old pages.
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  57. Venus

    January 30, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    Hi Mitz,
    I totally agree with you. Building links to the new pages doesn’t only help them crawl, but it also assist us to gain better rank in SERP results.As the old pages are easy trusted by Google as well.

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  58. Anne

    January 30, 2012 at 5:59 am

    Mitz, once you’re finished with your old posts, can you resubmit the url in your Webmaster tools’ ‘Fetch as googlebot’ option? Would this work to index your re-written old page?
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    • mitz

      January 30, 2012 at 8:51 am

      No that is just a test tool as far a I know. I do not think you can force Google to re-index unless you give them a reason.

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  59. Shalyn

    January 30, 2012 at 3:40 pm

    Hi Mitz,

    I agree with your point, If you want to rank your old content for longer period then you must give attention to it’s link building and update the content as per new findings. This will ensure it’s quality and readers won’t mind to read it enough the actual post was published few years back and Google will also see as fresh content.

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  60. Anne

    January 30, 2012 at 12:09 am

    I followed your advice which you gave sometime back on old posts. I’ve noticed an increase of traffic on those I’ve worked on, especially after I shared them on social networking sites.
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  61. Devesh

    January 30, 2012 at 9:03 am

    Hey Mitz, thanks for the article I used to think editing old posts will not help but now I will definitely give it a try.
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  62. Ferb

    January 29, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    aha, you’re missing a point. Before, we’re going to add fresh content to old pages, we should add the word “update” in bold, so readers can see it and if we don’t add the word “update” then reader might not be read it because some of them were read the page.
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    • mitz

      January 29, 2012 at 10:22 pm

      Yes good point. Thanks for sharing Ferb! :)

      Reply

  63. Miguel

    January 30, 2012 at 5:30 am

    Really nice info, it´s a pleasure to read your blog. Thanks for sharing and continue on this way!

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  64. Harriet

    January 30, 2012 at 3:04 am

    Hi there.
    I read your post on making money from blogs, this is a really interesting follow up. Thanks for sharing your views, not everyone wants to share their secrets with their readers!
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  65. Nathan Jones

    January 30, 2012 at 3:02 am

    Thanks for the sharing, keep it up. You are a very good writer. Another very interesting article and particularly relevant to me as I have to go through my old pages and optimise them properly and look at the links.
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  66. Bhupendra

    January 30, 2012 at 1:36 am

    Hi mitz,
    This is really new and great information for me,Building New Links on Old Pages i think will give a batter SEO result and internal link.
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  67. Trung Nguyen

    January 29, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    That’s good point, I recommend you to use SEO Smart Links plugins to build new links on your old pages/posts instead editing it.
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  68. jan

    January 29, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    Hi Mitz
    Another very interesting article and particularly relevant to me as I have to go through my old pages and optimise them properly and look at the links. How do you get Google to index a page that has been updated, or does that come through getting new links back to your original page?
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    • mitz

      January 29, 2012 at 8:39 pm

      On the older posts you can add new information and update the content…Then social share it, link back to it and so on…That should get it re-indexed and worthy for the new links.

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      • jan

        January 29, 2012 at 10:29 pm

        Thanks for that Mitz, I have one post that I really need to re-do – too many links, too many widgets!! And it is actually pretty much the next thing on my to-do list so this came at a good time :)
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  69. doug_eike

    January 29, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    I enjoyed this video. For the past 18 months, I”ve been working on developing content, and now link building is taking a bigger role. How valuable are links that are left in comments on other blogs? Between a link that appears in a blogroll and one that is in the text of an article, which is the more valuable? My blog has a PR of 2, and that has made it difficult to interest other bloggers in trading links with me. Will these trades get easier as my PR improves? Thanks for the insights!
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    • mitz

      January 29, 2012 at 8:37 pm

      When your PR improves people will be contacting you to get links and even buy links.. Of course you can go and get them too but that takes time..
      My theory with link building is that the harder they are to get the more valuable they will be..So commenting is not that hard but commenting has more than just SEO going for it. You get to know people, you get traffic, and more..

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