u/Haunting-Forever-631

I've been running content for a B2B SaaS for about a year and a half, and refreshing old posts used to be the reliable win. I went through fourteen of our best performers in April, rewrote the intros, added sections, updated the numbers, and about nine of them slid back within six weeks or so. I know refreshes aren't permanent and the SERP moved under us, but this is the first time the updates have made things worse instead of flat.

What did you end up doing differently once refreshes stopped holding?

Two and a half years in, passed N3 last summer. Reading's fine, 80 pages into my first novel, looking things up maybe once a page. Listening, I catch about half. Not a vocab problem either: I know almost every word when I read the transcript after. My brain just can't segment it fast enough in real time.

What actually helped you here? Mainly wondering whether passive background listening is worth the hours, and whether it's better to re-listen to the same thing until it's clear or keep pushing into new material.

Currently, 20 min of Nihongo Con Teppei a day plus anime. Happy to hear the answer is just more hours, but I'd rather fix something structural now if there is one.