How to Find Old Posts on Blogs and Facebook

Start with the blog’s archive, category pages, or search bar, if available, and enter a distinctive word you remember from the post’s title or topic. If you know roughly when it was published, move through the archive by month or year instead of paging through every recent post.

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Try a search engine query that combines the blog’s name with a topic, such as “Obsessian old blog posts AI,” to narrow the results. You can also add site:obsessian.com to search within our site, then use the result’s date and title to identify the post you want.

If you manage a blog, sign in to its publishing dashboard and open the area labeled Posts, Articles, or Content; there, you can usually sort by publication date or search by title. Be sure to distinguish published posts from drafts and scheduled posts, since those may appear in the same dashboard but won’t necessarily be visible to readers.

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Once you find the post, read the live version before making changes so you can spot outdated information, broken links, and sections that no longer answer a reader’s question. If you’re planning an update rather than simply looking back, our Old Posts, New Power: The Ultimate Guide to AI for Rewriting Your Old Blog Posts for SEO, Engagement, and Traffic Boost focuses on refreshing older blog content.

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