6 Ways to Resurrect Old Content

One of the tips I often provide companies is how to resurrect old content to drive new traffic. If you’ve been blogging for long, you have a lot of great content – and much of it may still be relevant to readers. There’s no reason you can’t resurrect this content to build traffic for your site and drive business to your company.

6 Ways to Resurrect Content

  • Through your next post: Do you ever refer to old posts in your latest posts? Why not? If you’ve written some great content that’s applicable to the current post, you should throw a link in there. Additionally, you may even wish to add a related posts plugin (my favorite WordPress related posts plugin is actually found here). Providing related posts can resurrect posts from both a search engine standpoint (since you’ve got a link via your home page) as well as increase your pages per visit on site.
  • Through Search Engines: Purchase a one-day subscription to SEOpivot. Run the report against your blog and you’ll be provided a list of posts with relevant keywords that the post is found for. Optimize the post title, meta description and first few words of the post to incorporate the keywords and republish. As long as you have a Sitemap plugin installed, this will notify the search engine of the change and your post will be re-indexed, most likely at a much better rank.
  • Through Digg: Digg’s recent changes make finding and promoting content that’s relevant to your network much easier. If you quit Digg (as I did), log back in and check out the improvements. Promote a previously popular post on Digg and you might find that the post comes right back to life!
  • Through Twitter: There’s a lot of tweetin’ going on. You may have grown your following quite a bit since the last time you posted a blog post over on Twitter to share with your network. Announce it again (but let followers know it was a retweet), by stating… “This was my most popular post last month on [insert subject]. If folks hadn’t read it, they may now!
  • Through StumbleUpon: You shouldn’t just promote your own content on StumbleUpon… you should participate in the community and stumble other sites as well (you won’t regret it… I’ve found a ton of cool resources there). However, from time to time, promoting old content that hasn’t been stumbled upon before can drive some great traffic.
  • Through Facebook: I love the Wibiya toolbar that’s implemented on this blog (and my other sites). It also allows me to periodically like an older post and push it back to fans and followers on Facebook at the click of a button! Find an old post of yours today and resurrect it!

    • If you’ve got a corporate blog with lots of great content, resurrecting content should be an ongoing strategy for you. Pushing relevant older content back into the spotlight can drive a lot of additional traffic to your business. Be picky about the content you promote and don’t overwhelm your current fans, followers and subscribers with a lot of repeats… but don’t hesitate to promote a popular post to resurrect it. You’ll be surprised at how valuable old content can be!