Redoing older blogpost, good or bad idea?

[EnduranceNinja]

Has anyone went back to very old blog articles and edited them? I see some of my first blog articles and find many revisions I should do and errors and wonder should I change them. Or even better I am thinking of doing new blog articles on those past articles. Do I keep the older articles if I revise them? I am not saying my writing is excellent but, it has improved much more since I started my blog. Or do I keep the older ones to show my readers the evolution of my blog from its early roots?

Thanks for your time

[Jim11]

if you know it's not good content or you can do better just edit it or delete it.

if it was something that you know many people read and value then you would be cautious in editing it, but if that's not the case I would say it should be fine to change it.

[Lucas]

I think that if its changing the content of original posts, you shouldn't do it, but if it grammatical and punctuation editing...for sure. As well as interlinking yor articles.

[AviMar]

perhaps..
If something doesn't fit with your message now, you can delete it.
If it gets lots of traffic - you can add to it perhaps, but don't make any drastic changes - it was linked to for a reason!
But overall, the generation of new content, or rewriting core/pillar articles would be a better use of your time, I think.

[mercuryrising]

I was just thinking about the same thing. In my case, I was considering going through old articles and revising them into new articles. In some cases, I like the idea, but I could have communicated the idea better. Right now, it just sits in a data file with no one to read it.

[1000feet]

There's a lot of reasons people might want to refer to the old article if you have any significant traffic. Why not write a new post explaining what's changed, and link to it from the old post?