Blog clean up must be done once in a while. Some parts of your blog tend to be used over and over again. Your blog might need to pay a visit to pump in fresh air to these places. These places won’t annoy your readers at large but you might lose some of your readers who entered your blog via other points rather than your main entrance.
Another reason for a clean up is to boost server loads. Every time your page loads, it might be slowed down by some “behind the scenes” elements which I will show you in this list as well.
10 Important Clean Up Sections For a Blog
Plugins
When we stop using a plugin or a plugin seems to be bugging our blog, we tend to deactivate it. Considering the fact that we might need to use the plugin in the future, we did not delete it from our FTP folders.
Plugins section in the admin panel will tend to have a reminder column under a plugin if we did not update the plugin to its latest version. Deactivated plugins tend to have such reminders as well if they are not updated, making the list long and messy.
Categories
Long categories definitely is not a good thing if you are blogging on a niche blog. Also, targeted traffic might be chased away when at one glance you offer something out of their expectation (unrelated contents). Cleaning up your list of categories will mean regrouping your posts, changing the names of the categories and deleting of categories.
Before you go ahead and modify your categories, be sure that search engines have not indexed your categories pages. You can do this by adding meta tags to stop indexing of such pages, editing the robot.txt file in your server or simply check the box “noindex for Categories” on the All-In-One SEO plugin (if you don’t have it on your blog, get it now!) options page.
Old Post
Posts in your archives might have covered historical events and you might want to link forward to later posts, update the information, correct minor but once undiscovered spelling and grammatical mistakes, recycle and make it your posts for another round or even delete it. Old posts have their own value and they might be the materials that assure new readers that your writings are worth subscribing or coming back.
One thing about revisiting old posts and updating them is that you will pick up some inspiration of what to blog along the way. Resuscitating your old posts by putting in on the front page again can reduce the workload on content creation and capturing new readers with these old but useful posts is an effective method.
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