Comments on: 3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Delete Your Blog Posts

By: Bob Bizzle

Bob Bizzle — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:06:08 +0000

I was wondering if you could help.

I have recently deleted my blogger blog, and moved it across to wordpress. Purely because I didnt’ want duplicated content for SEO purposes. Was this a bad move? Also, it is taking longer for google to index my new blog, which is now actually part of my site as apposed to previously being a subdomain (blogger).

Any help appreciated.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:54:56 +0000

I’ve deleted one post ever, and that’s because it really didn’t fit the particular blog, which was my business blog, and it was garnering the wrong types of comments, which I really didn’t want associated with that blog. I ended up deleting it and writing it over on a different blog, which I hadn’t had when I initially wrote the post, and oddly enough, it’s never gotten a single comment on the new blog.

I have inactivated a post here and there, though, to not accept any comments, but that had to do with posting a short time survey that I didn’t need any more input on.

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:51:10 +0000

It really was the weirdest thing. There was nothing in the post keyword-wise that looked like it would attract pornographic spam bots, especially not when compared to the “filth” in the language around the rest of the blog. Makes me wonder how those ridiculous things work sometimes.

By: Jennifer Escalona

Jennifer Escalona — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:46:02 +0000

I agree with the post but just wanted to remark on your porn-attracting post. The exact same thing happened to me with one of my rather generic posts. It got to the point that I deleted it, and then the problem went away. I wonder what keyword or phrase or tag I used to attract their attention? I guess we all have to deal with life’s little random annoyances, don’t we?

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:21:16 +0000

@Rebecca – I’m all for bloggers going back and fixing up old posts. Sometimes if they’re still highly relevant they’ll even change it to a current publish date so it goes out to subscribers and such again. I also don’t think there’s anything wrong with tackling a topic more than once. Things can change, or maybe there’s a better approach that can be taken. But deleting is not only frustrating for readers, but you also risk losing any incoming links or search engine traffic tied to the original.

@Shevonne – I like looking back too. It’s interesting to how your style, views, and other post elements have changed over the years. Everyone’s bound to make some changes as we learn and grow.

@Chanda – I agree. If you are going to delete a post because you’re uncomfortable with what you’ve said, at least note that to readers. It makes you look slightly less pathetic to readers who have already seen the original at least.

By: Chanda | BizDharma.com

Chanda | BizDharma.com — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:08:13 +0000

Quite sensible points have been made here. If you delete your posts trying to hide something it definitely might not be helpful as some ppl would have already read it, some might have downloaded it in their offline readers etc. I believe ppl take blog posts very seriously. More than it should be. Its a free way to sharing stuff, if you goof up its OK. Update that post and ppl will know you are learning and open to criticism.

Most imp admit that you delete a post on your blog.

By: Shevonne

Shevonne — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:24:25 +0000

I finally realized this two years ago, and I love going back and seeing how my blogging has improved. :)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:23:24 +0000

I deleted some posts because I felt I could rewrite them. I didn’t think about them being cached in search engines. You made a great point about “thinking” about what you write before you post it. Thanks for the reminder.