Recovering A Deleted Page Or Post, Chapter 2

Blog owners bring been deleting their pages as well as posts, as well as thence changing their minds later, since Blogger started providing the might to delete pages as well as posts.

We've been advising anxious weblog owners, for roughly time, how to recover deleted pages as well as posts. The easiest solution, inward the long run, is to recover the PageID / PostID, as well as re set out the deleted page / post.

When the deleted page or post service cannot live on re published, the side yesteryear side alternative is to re laid upwards the page / post, perchance using feed cache.

Using this technique, you'll bring to reformat the post service content, every bit feed content is formatted relatively simply. When y'all set out the post, it volition set out every bit a novel post, alongside a novel URL - thence whatever external references to the missing post service URL volition yet live on broken.

Thanks to the of late offered Custom Redirects option, though, nosotros tin brand this latter selection slightly less undesirable.

When a deleted page or post service has to live on rebuilt from the beginning, the classic prognosis was non good.

1. The content is retrieved or rewritten, as well as thence re formatted.
2. The page / post service is re published, but under a novel URL.
3. The readers, as well as the search engines, accommodate to the novel URL beingness used.

For many weblog owners, lawsuit #3 is the cruelest blow - every bit the weblog suffers reputation loss, from readers as well as search engines seeing

404 Not Found

for the deleted page / post.

Given plenty decision as well as time, the weblog possessor tin larn through issues #1 as well as #2 - but lawsuit #3 is the gift that exactly keeps on giving. Using Custom Redirects, though, that does non bring to live on the case.

It's a unproblematic solution - as well as your readers as well as the search engines don't bring to produce anything unusual.

1. Rebuild the page / post, using a carefully chosen Title / URL.
2. Add a Custom Redirect.
   • From: The deleted (previously published) URL.
   • To: The novel (re published) URL.
3. The readers, as well as the search engines tin persuasion the re built page / post service contents using the former URL - as well as update their tape of the URL, every bit convenient to them, to betoken to the novel URL. And the page / post service never goes offline.

And you, the weblog owner, tin larn dorsum to operate on novel pages as well as posts.

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