It seems advantageous all around to repost articles if it makes them substantially better.

For the reader, reposted articles can be:
More current.
More comprehensive.
Increased content.
General improvement in wording, style, images etc.

Benefits to the blogger:
Takes the pressure off producing a solid, satisfying article the first time.
Posts can improve. Blog gets better.
An important article need not fade into the sunset of time.

I first did this on my blog with post #4 moving it up to #68. Carried forward once again (perhaps unpublished) the reposts could form the chapters of a book.

A problem I have with this (in Blogger) is that any links to the old post will no longer work. For now and with my programming skills I will just place a link to the updated article which will have a new date and sit at the top of the blog. It will not just fade away to the bottom.

This seems a reasonable when it is a solid benefit to the blog.

Any suggestions?

There are lots of ways to get traffic to your blog, and writing on high profile sites is just one of them.

If you have membership to social networking sites you can link in with them, and that will help gain traffic.

Also, you can join twitter, this helps because you will gather friends and followers in a relatively short time and then post a note on there that says “I have just updated my blog at http://www.yourdomain.com” and people will go and visit it, to see what you have been up to.

You can also make a squidoo lens or more than one since you have more than one subject. They can focus traffic to your blog.

I could go on all day telling you different ways to get traffic to your blog because I am mentored by Alex Jeffreys and we are right in the middle of two modules about traffic, but that will do for a start off. We have to blog about what we are doing to get traffic, so if you come to my blog you will see what I have tried. Also, use some of the links to others in my team’s blogs, they will have great advice too.

Best wishes with your blog,

Ruth Stewart

I have to say I get a bit confused about this. I am not sure that I speak particularly properly, but I really like to write reasonably well. Yet, we are encouraged to write as we speak. Does that include grammar and spelling? So if I was from the Eastend of London, would I write:

“Me an’ my ol’ man wen’ daan ta Sarfend on the weekend.”

Translation : “My husband (Old Man) and I went to Southend this weekend.”

Well, I hope that no-one thinks people should, although it would be quite funny.

So do people read my blog and think oh she isn’t writing as she is speaking? That wouldn’t be fair because I really do try to write as I think.

Anyway, that’s my thought,

Ruth Stewart

I truly feel empathy for people with a poor grasp of English trying to read tech stuff: it is almost all English and it has to be very frustrating at time – particularly when we (the writers) are a little sloppy or use humor or slang.

But any site (even Darren’s here) could benefit, and the idea of sharing revenue (I’m offering ad space they can use for whatever they like – promote their own site or even their favorite charity) might just work well.

I think I’ll also do a little Adwords promotion on this.. can’t hurt.

I don’t think automatic translation software is at the point where I could use that, so I’ve been thinking about offering someone a share of advertising revenue in exchange for translations. I think that could be a great adjunct.