How Long?

Believe it or not, I’ve been writing this blog for a little over 13 years. This post you are reading will be my 1,404th post! Can you believe it? Still, I’ve begun to wonder if I should thin out or delete some posts. Especially those older ones.

In the early years, I was writing mostly about dragons of myth and legend from around the world, with little jokes and such thrown in. After about 7 years of that, I felt like I was wearing out the topic. So I switched over to general news about my writing projects and related activities. During this time I’ve never been concerned about monetizing the blog. Building community and making a few sales, sure. In fact, I even published a collection called Wyrmflight. The e-book is still available, if any of this is intriguing to you. But I wouldn’t lose any income by deleting those earlier posts.

For myself, I know that I judge online sources based on how old they are. Information that’s more than two years old seems questionable to me. Even though some of my posts are evergreen, and continually get hits, I do wonder about the relevance of many posts from 10 or more years ago.

Is anyone aware of a standard practice as far as how long blog posts should stay up? I would love to hear your insights.

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