by Fronetics | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19, Marketing, SEO
Updated 1/21/25
Revitalizing Your Blog Archive: Modern SEO Strategies for 2025
Your company blog remains a valuable asset for search visibility, but the rules have evolved. Here’s how to breathe new life into your old blog posts using current SEO best practices — without overwhelming your team.
Why Update Old Content?
Search engines, particularly Google, have become increasingly sophisticated in evaluating content quality and relevance. While freshness remains important, it’s now just one factor among many. Google’s helpful content system and AI-driven algorithms prioritize comprehensive, authoritative content that genuinely serves user intent.
Our own data supports this evolution: a 2018 post about corporate social responsibility continues to perform well not just because it’s regularly updated, but because it thoroughly addresses the topic from multiple angles, matching the depth that today’s search engines expect.
The Modern Benefits of Blog Post Updates
Updating old blog posts delivers several key advantages in today’s search landscape:
- It signals to search engines that your site is actively maintained and authoritative in your field.
- It allows you to align content with current search intent patterns and semantic search capabilities.
- It helps maintain E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness).
- It provides opportunities to optimize for voice search and featured snippets.
- It enables you to incorporate new media formats that modern search engines favor.
Identifying High-Potential Posts for Updates
Rather than randomly updating old content, focus on posts with these characteristics:
Strong Existing Performance Signals
- Posts that already rank on page 2-3 for valuable keywords (these often have untapped potential)
- Content with high dwell time but low conversion rates
- Pages that earn consistent backlinks despite their age
- Posts that generate significant social engagement
Strategic Value Indicators
- Topics that align with current business priorities
- Content that addresses evergreen industry challenges
- Posts that target high-commercial-intent keywords
- Pages that compete with outdated competitor content
Modern SEO Update Strategies
1. Optimize for Search Intent
- Use tools like Google Search Console‘s search queries report to understand how users actually find your content
- Analyze the “People Also Ask” boxes for related topics
- Structure content to directly answer common user questions
- Consider adding FAQ schema markup for enhanced SERP visibility
2. Enhance Content Depth and Authority
- Expand sections that address key user pain points
- Include expert quotes and current industry statistics
- Add real-world examples and case studies
- Lnk to authoritative sources using targeted anchor text
3. Improve Technical SEO Elements
- Implement proper header hierarchy (H1, H2, H3)
- Optimize for Core Web Vitals (loading speed, interactivity, visual stability)
- Add structured data where appropriate (Article, HowTo, FAQ schemas)
- Ensure mobile optimization meets current standards
4. Enhance Media and Interactivity
- Add high-quality, original images with descriptive alt text
- Include interactive elements like calculators or assessment tools where relevant
- Embed relevant videos with proper schema markup
- Consider adding infographics or data visualizations
5. Internal Linking Strategy
- Create topic clusters linking related content
- Update anchor text to reflect current keyword targeting
- Remove links to outdated or redirected pages
- Add links to newer, relevant content
6. User Experience Optimization
- Break up long paragraphs for better readability
- Add table of contents for longer posts
- Include clear calls-to-action
- Optimize for featured snippet opportunities
7. Content Consolidation
- Identify and merge similar posts to create comprehensive resources
- Implement proper redirects for consolidated content
- Update internal links to point to new consolidated pages
- Maintain URL structure of the strongest performing page
Technical Implementation Best Practices to Update Old Blog Posts for SEO
When updating posts:
- Maintain the original URL to preserve link equity
- Update the “last modified” date in your CMS and XML sitemap
- Consider adding a “Last Updated” note for transparency
- Use proper schema markup to indicate the last update date
- Monitor Core Web Vitals before and after updates
Measuring Success
Track these metrics to evaluate the impact of your updates:
- Organic search traffic changes
- Featured snippet acquisition
- Position tracking for target keywords
- User engagement metrics (time on page, bounce rate)
- Conversion rates
- Core Web Vitals scores
The Bottom Line
While it’s valuable to update old blog posts for SEO, success in 2025 requires a more nuanced approach that considers user intent, content quality, and technical excellence. Focus on creating comprehensive, authoritative content that serves your audience’s needs while adhering to modern technical SEO best practices.
Regular content audits and updates should be an integral part of your SEO strategy, but remember that quality trumps quantity. Prioritize updates that add genuine value for your users and align with current search engine capabilities.
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by Fronetics | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog, Marketing, SEO
Search intent looks at the ‘why’ behind a search. If you’re looking to improve your website ranking, here’s how search intent affects SEO.
Highlights:
- If you truly want to rank at the top of search results, you’ve got to shift your thinking in terms of topic clusters.
- Think about your buyer personas. What kinds of queries they’re typing into Google – not just the actual words but the intent behind the keywords?
- Then start creating content to answer those questions in different formats like video, blog, and infographics.
Video transcript:
I’m Elizabeth Hines from Fronetics, and today’s topic is search intent and how it affects SEO.
I keep saying that trying to rank for certain keywords is a really outdated method of SEO. If you truly want to rank at the top of search results, you’ve got to shift your thinking in terms of topic clusters. And you should develop those topic clusters based on something called search intent.
Now search intent is the why behind a search query. What that means is why did the person conduct this search in the first place. There are 4 types:
- Informational: when a user is searching for specific information.
- Navigational: when a user is looking for a specific website
- Transactional: when a user is looking to make a purchase.
- Commercial investigation: when a user is researching products or services but they’re not yet ready to make a purchase. They might be looking for reviews and comparisons.
So, how can you optimize your website to better serve search intent?
Think about your buyer personas. What kinds of queries they’re typing into Google – not just the actual words but the intent behind the keywords? Are they trying to solve a problem, like, how can I extend battery life on my forklifts? Are they trying to understand how new federal regulations or mandates might impact their business? Or, are they trying to budget for a new solution and researching pricing?
The next step is creating content to answer those questions. Try answering the question in several different formats — long-form content, blogs, video, infographics. Creating this like of content with search intent in mind is more likely to get you ranking higher in Google search results than thinking about individual keywords and phrases.
For more information, visit us at our website at fronetics.com.
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by Fronetics | May 22, 2019 | Blog, Content Marketing, Logistics, Marketing, Social Media, Supply Chain
Social listening describes the process of scanning online platforms to find the sentiment around your brand. Here are 4 ways that social listening can boost SEO.
Highlights:
- Social listening describes the process of scanning social media platforms, blogs, news websites and other digital forums to find the mention of any keywords.
- Regularly monitoring the sentiment around your brand through social listening can help prevent a problem before it blows up.
- Track your organic brand mentions and use that information to create a strategy about how to grow brand awareness.
Video transcript:
This is Elizabeth Hines. I’m the Creative Director at Fronetics, and today we’re talking about four ways social listening can boost your SEO.
Social listening describes the process of scanning social media platforms, blogs, news websites and other digital forums to find the mention of any keywords. In particular the name of your company or your CEO for example, to figure out the general sentiment around your company and your people. We used to use social listening mainly for social media marketing, but it can also be a really effective search engine optimization tool if you do it properly. So here are four ways social listening can boost your SEO.
1. Learn if your backlinks are coming from spammy websites
Backlinks from spammy or untrustworthy websites can negatively impact your search ranking. So a Google executive recently noted that this is just a normal part of being on the web and really you shouldn’t worry that much about it. But the one exception would be if there’s some kind of dedicated activity from a competitor, for example, buying up a lot of links and trying to ruin your search ranking. In this instance you should consider disavowing them and using social listening to figure that out.
2. Find guest blogging opportunities
One of the greatest benefits of social media is the opportunity to network with your industry peers and social influencers. Building relationships with reputable businesses and people could be a gateway to guest blogging, which is one of the most sound and effective ways to build your reputation with search engines, not to mention the people that follow those peer sites and influencers.
3. Monitor your brands reputation
Mistakes happen and even companies with the best intentions will sometimes suffer from a social media crisis. So regularly monitoring the sentiment around your brand through social listening can help prevent a problem before it blows up, goes viral or at least is big enough for Google’s algorithm to down rank you for providing a poor user experience.
4. Grow brand mentions
Now a lot of people will tell you to use social listening to find linkless backlinks, which are websites that mention your content but don’t provide a hyperlink to your site. Then you should reach out to those people and see if they’ll add that link in. But in my opinion, this is an enormous waste of time. We’re seeing that linkless backlinks are becoming equally as important as regular backlinks for search engine optimization. So instead, I encourage you to use that time and energy to track your organic brand mentions and use that information to create a strategy about how to grow more. For example did you say something on Reddit that got lots of attention? Well, you should do more of that.
For more tips like these, check out our blog at fronetics.com.
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by Fronetics | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog, Content Marketing, Marketing, SEO, Video Marketing
With the growing popularity of video, it’s harder for video posts to rank in search results. Here’s what marketers need to know about SEO and video posts.
Highlights:
- When choosing your video hosting platform, it’s important to consider the reasons why you want your videos to rank, such as lead generation or brand awareness.
- Spend time crafting an engaging video title and description and make sure to use keywords audiences are actually searching for.
- Don’t solely rely on optimizing your video to receive placement on search engines. It’s just as important that the rest of the page is optimized for SEO.
Video transcript:
I’m Ulrika Gerth, and I’m the Content Writer and Strategist at Fronetics. Today I’m going to talk about what you need to know about SEO and video posts.
So video SEO is simply optimizing your video to be indexed and rank on the search engine results pages, like Google.
In the last few years, video marketing has become more and more popular among businesses and it’s easy to see why. It’s cost effective and easy to produce. But with the explosion of video, it’s also become much harder to get ranked on universal search results.
Here are a few ways to optimize your videos.
1. Pick the best platform.
When choosing your video hosting platform, you need to consider the reasons why you want your videos to rank. Are you optimizing your video to gain traffic and generate leads? Or are you more interested in thought leadership and brand awareness?
2. Make the video engaging.
The video thumbnail is what searchers will see when your video is indexed, and therefore it plays an important role in whether they will click on your video.
3. Pay attention to the title and description of your video.
Just like they do for a blog post, the title and description play a role in ranking videos. Spend time crafting an engaging video title and description. Make sure you do keyword research so you use keywords people are actually searching for.
4. Ensure the rest of your page is relevant to the video and optimized for SEO.
You can’t rely only on optimizing your video to receive placement on search engines. It’s just as important that the rest of the page is optimized for SEO, or the search engines won’t bother to crawl it in the first place.
For more information, visit fronetics.com.
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by Fronetics | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog, Marketing, SEO, Website Development
SEO helps your website rank higher in search engine results pages. Here are the SEO basics to get your website performing better and in front of your target audience.
Highlights:
- SEO stands for search engine optimization — that much has stayed the same. It refers to techniques that help your website rank higher in search engine results pages.
- SEO works by optimizing a website’s pages, conducting keyword research, and earning inbound links.
- To rank well in the long term, build your SEO marketing strategy around topics, not keywords.
Video transcript:
I’m Jennifer Yim and I’m the Director of Strategy here at Fronetics. Today’s topic is SEO. SEO seems pretty straightforward. You pick a few keywords and your page is magically optimized for SEO, right? Not quite.
People understand the basic principles of SEO, but a lot has changed in the last decade. Let’s take a look at the basics to get your site ranking higher.
SEO stands for search engine optimization — that much has stayed the same. It refers to techniques that help your website rank higher in search engine results pages. This makes your website more visible to people who are looking for solutions that your brand, product, or service can provide by search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.
What hasn’t stayed the same are the techniques we use to improve our rankings. This has everything to do with the search algorithms that these companies constantly change.
SEO works by optimizing a website’s pages, conducting keyword research, and earning inbound links. You can generally see results of SEO efforts once the webpage has been crawled and indexed by a search engine.
There are a ton of ways to improve the SEO of your site pages. Search engines look for elements including title tags, keywords, image tags, internal link structure, and inbound links.
Search engines also look at site structure and design, visitor behavior, and other external, off-site factors to determine how highly ranked your site should be in their results pages.
To rank well in the long term, build your SEO marketing strategy around topics, not keywords. If you do that, you’ll find you can naturally optimize for important keywords, anyway. Understanding your target audience and what interests them is key to attracting relevant visitors to your website through search engines.
For more tips on improving SEO and building your digital marketing strategy, visit us at Fronetics.com.
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