Comments on: Extending the Life of a Blog Post

By: Hicham

Hicham — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:11 +0000

This is very insightful. As for point #5, it’s important to check the old posts and fix any broken links and/or remove unessecary links.

By: Laurie Hall

Laurie Hall — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:43:14 +0000

Thanks for this! I just gave our blog a tune-up and I’ll go back now and apply these ideas. I was looking for one that I like the most, but really they are all great recommendations!

By: edisonsamuel

edisonsamuel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:57:14 +0000

Awesome Post Dear keep writing so that we can take benefit from your very useful knowledge

By: Ricardo Bueno

Ricardo Bueno — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:02:37 +0000

How about closing a post with “Related Articles” at the bottom? I think that’d be a great way to hi-light some of your timeless content…

By: Luis Lopez

Luis Lopez — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:43:21 +0000

Great post man, as I am just starting in blog world this kind of advices are really important to my future as a blogger, so I have you on my favorites in case I need to remind this kind of theme, and I hope that will be soon.

By: Abrishca Digital Media

Abrishca Digital Media — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:53:33 +0000

I can think of 2 ways to improve traffic to older posts.

The first is an extension of Internal Links. If you have other related websites (such as yourself Steven), you could look through those posts to identify any opportunities to link back to the other site.

Secondly, I have only recently joined Twitter (@abrishca) but I have noticed a few tweets of late that point to older posts. They may or may not relate to current topics or other blog-posts, but it certainly would be an effective method of getting “newer subscribers/followers” looking back at your older content.

As this sort of market is starting to get saturated, further concentration on these methods will be needed to ensure traffic consistency.

Thanks for the post,

Craig.

By: Steven Snell

Steven Snell — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:41:36 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Max. I think you’ll only see that increase as more time goes by. I was recently looking over my stats for Vandelay Design and realized how much of my traffic was going to older posts as compered to the new ones. It used to be almost all going to new posts, but I guess it’s not surprising that after almost 2 years of consistent posting the archives have become more valuable. However, looking at that made me realize how little I have actually done to maximize what I’m getting out of the archives. A lot of the information in this post was written to myself as much as it was to the readers.

By: Max Stanworth

Max Stanworth — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:22:44 +0000

This is a great post, ive been looking over my older posts that have been getting alot of direct search traffic and experimenting with the title keywords im going to see how it affects findability , also adding to older posts and sprucing them up is a good idea.