What I Learned From Editing 10 Years of Blog Posts
My hands hurt. My wrists hurt. My eyeballs hurt. My skin has soaked in too much blue light from my monitor. All of this because I spent the past two weeks editing slightly over TEN YEARS of blogs posts. It was a techie, tedious project, and I almost gave up a dozen times a day. I’m glad I stuck with it.
If you have a website, I don’t recommend waiting A DECADE to help your site get along better with the internet. By “get along” I mean, you want your posts to load faster and you want them picked up more often by Google. That’s the kind of editing I’m talking about here. I didn’t copyedit or change the ideas, which would have taken even longer.
I took out dead links, fixed photos with issues, fixed a lot of SEO opportunities that were previously blank, and in some cases deleted whole posts. It’s not that I’m selling anything I need Google’s help putting in front of buyers, but I haven’t kept a site running for the past ten years so that it stays invisible from search engines.
I’m not sure I’m stating emphatically enough how many hours this took and how detailed I had to be. For example, as soon as I realized that the book review site I used to work for was no longer online, I had to find any mention of that site in many years of posts and remove the links.
