WordPress SEO Tips: How to Re-Optimize Your Old Blog Posts To Boost Traffic

Many people overlook the value of optimizing existing posts, when in reality, old posts are arguably the best to optimize because you have the added benefit of seeing which posts have potential to rank and for which keywords they�re gaining traction�creating a great 80/20 approach to post optimization.
I wrote about how to recycle and improve old blog posts before and, from my experience having worked on some websites such as the NinjaOutreach blog and AvocadoPesto, a food blog, I understand why it makes a lot of sense to invest in optimizing what may be potentially 100�s of existing blog posts, instead of creating new ones from scratch.
Of course, I won�t ask you to just take my word for it. So in this article, I�ll present my own case study about how I executed this methodology AND increased organic traffic by over 40%.
I�ll tackle the three initial steps of:

• How to determine which posts to optimize
• How to determine which keywords you should be targeting
• How to optimize the post for these keywords

Afterwards, I�ll show you what effect this had overall on the website.
Let�s start.

How To Determine Which Posts To Optimize

There are several ways to go about this, but I like using free tools like Google Search Console.
So first, go to Google Search Console. Below it, click Search Traffic > Search Analytics

Google Search Console

Make sure the box for Clicks, Impressions, CTR, and Position are all checked. Then click the circle for Pages.

Search Console Filters

This will display a list of pages along with their stats.
Click the Download button at the bottom left corner to export the list, and load it into a spreadsheet editor.

Download Search Console

At this point, you have two options.

• Option 1 � Optimize all the posts (skip the following section)
• Option 2 � Focus only on the posts that will give you the largest gains

If you don�t have that many posts option 1 might be the best.
But, if you�re like most people trying to work efficiently, I�m going to give you some highly adjustable criteria that you can use to identify the posts that will give you the most bang for your buck.
That criteria is:

• A CTR lower than 1%
• A �high� impression rate (what you consider high depends on your blog / it�s traffic)
• A position between 1 to 30

I�ve chosen this criteria because it tells me that the post is ranking for something that has volume, is being seen, but for one reason or another isn�t getting clicked enough. In theory, if we can move it up in the rankings and optimize the title / description to be more relevant to what the user is searching, we can generate more clicks.
Given that, create three columns used specifically for the criteria, and use IF statements to indicate whether or not the post is getting high impressions, how it�s ranking, and if the click through rate is lower than 1%.

OnPage SEO Stats

You can then filter out the posts that don�t fit the criteria you want and tweak the criteria as needed.

How To Determine Which Keywords You Should Be Targeting

You have your target posts, so let�s find out what keywords for each posts you should be targeting.
Go back to Google Search Console to the same screen that had all your posts and find a post that you want to optimize. Note � you may have to go to the bottom and increase the number of results to show more.
Click the post, and then adjust the settings from Pages to Queries

Search Console Queries

Now, sort by impressions so the keyword queries receiving the most impressions are at the top:

Sort By Impressions

Generally, the top one is what I choose to make the focus keyword, unless I find that it�s totally irrelevant. The other ones can serve as great secondary keywords for even more of a boost. I create two more columns in the spreadsheet for my focus keywords, and go through all the posts in the list.

How To Optimize The Post For These Keywords

Once you�ve built your list of blog posts ripe for optimization, you�re all set to get started on the actual process of updating them.
I highly recommend Yoast�s WordPress plugin where you can enter your focus keyword and it spits out recommendations.

Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin

Do your best to improve upon the red and orange circles. The plugin updates in real time so it�s quite easy to follow your progress. It�s free, but the premium plug in allows you to add additional keywords.
Once you have mostly all greens, you�re done.
Beyond Yoast�s plugin, there are several things you can do to improve a post, such as.

• Add images with alt text
• Fix grammar and style issues
• Add more research-backed stats or update cited sources to more recent, high authority ones
• Add more categories, tags, or subheadings
• Embed more shareable multimedia content (explainer videos, slideshare decks, infographics)
• Reorganize and reword several parts or even the whole article for better readability (for some cases)

The Results

Between August and December of 2016, I used exactly this method to optimize nearly 200 old posts on AvocadoPesto, my girlfriend�s food blog.
Mind you, we did very little in the ways of adding new content, rewriting, or adding images. The primary focus was simply keyword adjustment and following Yoast�s guidelines. On average, optimizing each post took about 10 minutes, so in total the project took around 30 hours.
Here are the results:

Onpage SEO Results

As you can see, for a long time the blog�s organic traffic was stagnant at around 40k organic visitors a month, even though new content was being produced weekly!
In September, after we started optimizing, there was a noticeable uptick to 55k visitors; an increase of almost 40%!
January, being only half over, is on track to surpass 60k visitors, which would be a 50% increase overall.
Not bad for less than a week�s worth of work.

Conclusion

Now that you know my step by step process, it�s time to take your old (or dead) content out for a makeover. What I�ve shown you is not something overly technical or complicated, and honestly can be accomplished with the help of a dedicated assistant.

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