If you've been blogging for a long period of time, you might find yourself getting burned out or running out of things to blog about.
But benefit of regular blogging is that you also have a large archive of previous posts stored on your blog.
And there's a lot you can do with this older content.
Here's a few ideas to try: 1.
Promote your old blog posts- If you're already tweeting about your new blog posts, how about also tweeting about some of your older posts too? This is something that I try to do a couple times of week.
I'll pick a couple of oldies, but goodies and tweet out a link to them to my Twitter followers.
A lot of times I do get some fresh traffic to an old post that might otherwise be buried deep in my blog.
I'll also link to these older posts on Facebook, LinkedIn, and discussion forums to catch the folks I'm connect with on those sites.
Have an email newsletter? Suggest some of your best blog posts in your new subscriber welcome message to get them further acquainted with your blog.
2.
Update, expand, or collect- You can take an old blog post and write a follow up post, expand it into a larger post, or you can organize related posts into collection or roundup post.
3.
Turn your old blog posts into articles- If you have a particularly popular blog post, why not turn it into an article or a guest post? There are a lot of blogs out there that are looking for people to some guest blogging on their blogs.
Take one of your popular posts, update it or polish it up and offer it as guest post on another blog.
Or open an account on EzineArticles and post your articles there.
Provide a link back to your blog at the end of each article to get interested readers back to your blog.
Or you can approach a print magazine or ezine and offer an updated version of your article to appear in their publication.
Make sure that each guest post or article includes a brief bio about you and a link to your blog or website.
4.
Create a report or ebook- If you have a nice collection of related posts like tutorials, how to's, or other information that your readers like, put them together into a really nice free PDF report or eBook to give away to visitors to your blog.
Can't readers just read those posts on your blog? Sure they can, but putting them into a nice downloadable PDF makes it easier for them to read all at once and to pass along to others that might interested.
Don't forget to add information about yourself, your work, and your blog in your ebook.
Get some extra traffic out of your eBook by putting it on a document sharing site like Scribd so folks there can read what you wrote...
and maybe visit your blog for more! 5.
Reformat your posts into a different format- Take a blog post and turn it into a format other than text.
Why not make your blog post into an audio recording for a podcast to share on iTunes? Or you can make your posts into a series of slides and share on Slideshare or YouTube? Not everyone likes to read and if you post your audio, slides, or video on sharing sites, you might be able to get some traffic back to your blog.
6.
Make your blog into a book- Well, it's been done before.
A lot of authors got their first book by making a collection of their best posts into a printed book.
Or they create a blog with the express purpose of writing a book, one blog post at a time.
You can DIY this yourself by using self publishing services like Lulu or Amazon's CreateSpace.
Why wait for a publishing house to discover you?
But benefit of regular blogging is that you also have a large archive of previous posts stored on your blog.
And there's a lot you can do with this older content.
Here's a few ideas to try: 1.
Promote your old blog posts- If you're already tweeting about your new blog posts, how about also tweeting about some of your older posts too? This is something that I try to do a couple times of week.
I'll pick a couple of oldies, but goodies and tweet out a link to them to my Twitter followers.
A lot of times I do get some fresh traffic to an old post that might otherwise be buried deep in my blog.
I'll also link to these older posts on Facebook, LinkedIn, and discussion forums to catch the folks I'm connect with on those sites.
Have an email newsletter? Suggest some of your best blog posts in your new subscriber welcome message to get them further acquainted with your blog.
2.
Update, expand, or collect- You can take an old blog post and write a follow up post, expand it into a larger post, or you can organize related posts into collection or roundup post.
3.
Turn your old blog posts into articles- If you have a particularly popular blog post, why not turn it into an article or a guest post? There are a lot of blogs out there that are looking for people to some guest blogging on their blogs.
Take one of your popular posts, update it or polish it up and offer it as guest post on another blog.
Or open an account on EzineArticles and post your articles there.
Provide a link back to your blog at the end of each article to get interested readers back to your blog.
Or you can approach a print magazine or ezine and offer an updated version of your article to appear in their publication.
Make sure that each guest post or article includes a brief bio about you and a link to your blog or website.
4.
Create a report or ebook- If you have a nice collection of related posts like tutorials, how to's, or other information that your readers like, put them together into a really nice free PDF report or eBook to give away to visitors to your blog.
Can't readers just read those posts on your blog? Sure they can, but putting them into a nice downloadable PDF makes it easier for them to read all at once and to pass along to others that might interested.
Don't forget to add information about yourself, your work, and your blog in your ebook.
Get some extra traffic out of your eBook by putting it on a document sharing site like Scribd so folks there can read what you wrote...
and maybe visit your blog for more! 5.
Reformat your posts into a different format- Take a blog post and turn it into a format other than text.
Why not make your blog post into an audio recording for a podcast to share on iTunes? Or you can make your posts into a series of slides and share on Slideshare or YouTube? Not everyone likes to read and if you post your audio, slides, or video on sharing sites, you might be able to get some traffic back to your blog.
6.
Make your blog into a book- Well, it's been done before.
A lot of authors got their first book by making a collection of their best posts into a printed book.
Or they create a blog with the express purpose of writing a book, one blog post at a time.
You can DIY this yourself by using self publishing services like Lulu or Amazon's CreateSpace.
Why wait for a publishing house to discover you?
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