I was thinkinmeg of editing the post, as it happened to me last week, but I’ll post my new opinion on the subject instead.

Another thing: (important) In order to improve my SEO, I’m naming these grouped topic posts using the most likely search phrases. I had unknowingly done one post like this on May 4th and my traffic increased 10% (overnight) and it’s continuing to increase steadily (now a 20% increase as of two weeks ago). I did another post like this this morning on the topic of how to sell to clothing stores and grouped all of the pertinant posts over the past year into it. I’m unofficially calling it my “newbie refresher” series.

Thanks for the validation. I was feeling a little guilty over my “laziness”.

lol

I try to balance addressing people who are just at the beginning of taking care of their health with addressing people who’ve been slogging away and are starting to be tired of it. It’s an interesting challenge first thing in the morning. And I know I do better some days than others.

I was interested to learn that one day when I posted something I wasn’t happy about and asked if I should delete it or replace it, the overwhelming response was that it was the most inspiring thing I’d written for a while. So now I just try to be myself and write what seems important that day.

Now that I’m using performancing’s statistics, I can see what articles are being read. When I see clusters of topics (being read) for several days in a row, I figure it’s time to look at that topic again.

I talk to myself sometimes. Well… I guess it is more of reading outloud. It is when you talk to yourself and you start answering your own questions is when I really need to pull the plug on the thing and just walk away for at least a couple hours.
Steve

I have done that myself, but sometimes I run into posts that are months old that are still getting hits from SE’s.

I’m not sure how to handle that. I know I can update a topic, but if the original is still getting hits?

Joe

Keep up the great job

The idea is that many of my site’s readers haven’t explored the archives and haven’t been reading non-stop since day one — there are literally hundreds of topics hidden within the site, and only about 5% of people visit the archives.

The result so far is promising – a slight but noticable bump in the number of pages visited, along with more frequent comments on six month old posts.

Maybe early on you write article about the questions you THINK everyone is asking. But as you exhaust those options, you start asking the real questions YOU have been asking.

Of course, I guess it is also likely this could work in reverse for some bloggers.

See … I don’t know what I’m talking about. :-)

-dm

It’s a different mindset …. if you consider your blog as a conversation, or as a research vehicle, then the possibilities are endless.

However, I can see with sites, such as problogger, that it’d be harder to keep posting new things if most of the content isn’t from news (though somehow Darren pulls it off).

My blog always has a joke of the day feature, which I can see that drying up someday, though there are so many free work jokes out there it’d be hard to reach the end of it all.

For new blogs I may start up, it’s definitely something I think about, constant sources of content are crucial.

This is most certainly something that I have to keep reminding myself. An example of something similar exists in that I started blogging around the time when many “standards development” bloggers started, and many of that group seemed to have done the rounds and started talking about other things and then eventually just stopped talking (posting). Time to rethink a few things, I think. Thanks Darren!