SEO impact to editing old articles for spelling and/or grammatical errors

Georgia Poker · #1 () 10-17-2008, 07:14 PM

I've recently purchased a website with x,xxx pages and as we manually review the pages for optimization and what not, I'm correcting a few errors here and there (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc).

Is there any danger to doing this for pages that have been indexed? What about adding links in the context of those pages that wasn't present before?

I would think there's no danger in actually improving a page but our sitemap software then lists the last update to the page on the sitemap.xml file. Regardless, I'd like to hear from the pro's here on what, if any, impact there will be from this.

mjmurphy53711 · #2 () 10-17-2008, 07:38 PM

I generally think G loves updates, so most likely a positive.

PokerProp · #3 () 10-17-2008, 07:44 PM

Minor updates to old pages is usually a good thing.

Trikkur · #4 () 10-17-2008, 07:53 PM

You might see a quick drop in rankings for a short time, but it will almost always immediately rise back up to it's old rankings and likely higher.

kaus · #5 () 10-17-2008, 08:50 PM

I have rewritten sites from top to bottom Todd and it only improved...every page was started again from scratch...

Edit - but never one that big..usualy 60 - 75 pages

Randy · #6 () 10-17-2008, 10:01 PM

Ditto to what everyone else here has said. Most of my SEO work has involved revising and improving content, and I've always seen positive results from it.

Georgia Poker · #7 () 10-18-2008, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Randy

Ditto to what everyone else here has said. Most of my SEO work has involved revising and improving content, and I've always seen positive results from it.

Good deal. I wish I could afford you, Randy!