Comments on: Evergreen versus Time Related Posts

By: Portland Real Estate

Portland Real Estate — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:19:07 +0000

Great post! I could not agree more, and I loved the examples that you gave. I did a small political rant on Sarah Palin when she was announced as the republican running mate for the 2008 elections. My post referred to her as a hot librarian and that post generated more traffic than any other I had ever written.

By: Jonathan Bunn

Jonathan Bunn — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:30:39 +0000

This is a great article. It is great to see the value of blogs that have great value through out time are worth a lot. I sometimes have a lot of hits on local events but they soon die and look like old stale news on a blog that I want to have a fresh appearance.

By: More on Writing Content for your Blog: ProBlogger Blog Tips

More on Writing Content for your Blog: ProBlogger Blog Tips — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:06:09 +0000

[...] Time Specific and Evergreen Posts – Related to this last point is that some posts are more ‘time specific’ than others. Some posts are out of date within a day or two of writing them (and as a result won’t ever be looked at much) whereas other posts are more ‘evergreen’ in nature (ie they will be as useful to your readers today as they will be in a year’s time). It’s worth pondering this topic and deciding what type of posts you’re going to concentrate upon. I’ve written on this further at Evergreen versus Time Related Posts and in a mini series on Increasing the Longevity of Key Posts. [...]

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: Blog Tips at ProBlogger — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:49:24 +0000

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By: » Increasing the Longevity of Key Posts - Part I: ProBlogger

» Increasing the Longevity of Key Posts - Part I: ProBlogger — Wed, 04 May 2005 22:50:52 +0000

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Last week I wrote about the nature of two types of blog posting in Evergreen vs Time Related Posts (or posts that are long lastin [...]

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Mon, 02 May 2005 20:31:37 +0000

I remember being very surprised the first time I wrote a long, time-insensitive post. It immediately became the most viewed page on my website (after SEs got ahold of it). Since then I find that the extra time I put into evergreen posts is more than compensated for by the results I see.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:53 +0000

Another advantage that you may want to consider with Evergreen posts, one that only recently came to my mind after watching my site referrals – is placing ads on Evergreen posts targeting those visitors. Ads from appropriate affiliates could potentially be good money earners there.

I have a few readers that time and time again come up looking for a specific topic and end up at one of my blogs on a certain post, if there are related sites with an affiliate program, ones I believe to be of value to those readers, I could refer them in the right direction and make some money at the same time, everyone wins. And because its an Evergreen post, it has the potential to be a long term money earner.

By: Nels

Nels — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:06:06 +0000

I was simply going to comment that I like websites/blogs that provide some of both. I always like to get the latest news, but you also want to read blog entries that are thought out and contain relevant information that reminds you to do something, or makes you think of something new to do. Then you can refer back to these posts in 6 months to remind yourself what you'd thought of before. I said I was simply going to comment at the beginning because I read Andrew's comment and realized that ProBlogger has navigational "topboxes." I had honestly never noticed those before until they were pointed out right now. I usually come here from my feedreader, so my main goal is to read the article/post and then get back to work. Kind of reminds me of a post I made a couple months ago about the web user experience and basketball.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:12:50 +0000

Just a few thoughts:
- are there posts that turn out to be evergreen, even though you didn’t expect them to be?
- an important category of evergreen post is the red-faced post – perhaps one written in a hurry, because it was time-related, but once it’s on the web, it’s there… I won’t give examples, for obvious reasons
- ProBlogger itself is a very good example of a technique to help evergreen posts stay green – the “greatest hits” or similar list. Some sites have this in a sidebar, but Darren has such posts in “topboxes.”