Comments on: Breathe Life Into an Old Post [Day 21 - 31DBBB]

By: Kat Rice

Kat Rice — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:43:01 +0000

This was a particularly hard assignment for me. I know I had posts that needed work but I didn’t even know where to start, finally got one finished. Its renamed now to “Text that won’t make the Cut”

http://www.veribatim.com/blog/2008/11/06/need-to-know-basis/

By: abercrombie

abercrombie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:32:27 +0000

It’s funny that this came up today because I just tried rewrite an old post and release it two days ago. still no comments yet, but after reading upon Darren’s suggestions. i am convinced that comments will turn up. thank you

By: Ebizel Diary

Ebizel Diary — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:46:20 +0000

Great example of the “sneeze pages” u talk abt !!

By: ExcitedByLife

ExcitedByLife — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:28:06 +0000

We loved this task as well. It took a long time to read over this lesson and the recommended reading, but it was worth it.

Based on the suggestions we made the following changes:

* A large relevant graphic at the start of the post to reduce bounce rate
* Introductory questions to entice people to continue to read more
* A call to action – “leave a blog comment”
* Links to some newer relevant posts we have written

By: FRostinG

FRostinG — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:07:47 +0000

This is so true, i also think it’s a pretty good idea to update older posts. Regular readers usually come from the main page, but new ones will find a blog with a search engine and will enter on your site by one of your ‘old’ posts. So if those are kept up to date, you make a better first impression! Great site btw, lots of nice tricks!

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:32:59 +0000

So much to learn, so little time.
I have started… heck I have been updating posts for the last two weeks.
Now I just need to get more folk actually reading my stuff. My Adwords/Analytics says I have a bounce rate of 61% and folk spend around 5 min’s on my site… but I think this is all the time my machine is on the site while I am updating and viewing changes :)

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:57:22 +0000

This was helpful! I did find some areas where I had put my category title (I have a series of post-types) but didn’t put a subject! I also found some more creative ways to title my posts so that google reader or search engines would pick them up.

By: Ark Lady

Ark Lady — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:57:17 +0000

Since I moved my website over to a blog I did redirects on most of the pages–except for the ones that are well ranked and that get a lot of traffic. I’d prefer to move them over but am hesitant–wondering what you think Darren after reading your response in the comment threads.

I have a lot of content that is dated (related to animal attacks) but what I find is that it does get recirculated when a similar event takes place.

When that happens I make sure a link to new content is up near the top and take advantage of the rank and age of that post to drive traffic to the new one.

Also, I find you can do a Series and add new content to a topic with links to similar, relevant content–that spices it up again.

By: Naomi Trower

Naomi Trower — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:24:55 +0000

I have quite a few posts to update. I upgraded my free wordpress blog to a self-hosted one and I have a bunch of links to update. Also I have quite a few videos and I noticed that some of them are inactive. I need to find out if there are in new locations or what happened and update my posts. Great idea! Thanks!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:21:20 +0000

I realize I’m a little tardy on this one, but I wanted to share anyway. I wrote one of my very first posts before I had really developed my writing style. I always hated reading that post, because it sounded so cheesey and false.

As you suggested, I’ve gone back and redone it, and I really like it SO much better. It gets my point across…I said more of what I had intended to in the original post, and in fewer words, too. It’s definitely more “me.” Thank you!

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:19:38 +0000

this is pretty true sometimes I feel in a rush to get posts out and having looked back on a few I have now realised I could add a great deal more content and information…

Which is better for every one in the long run even the lovely robots and they will fresh updated content to buzz through which could even help to create more traffic via search phrases!

thanks again Darren

By: Dane

Dane — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:36:14 +0000

Went back to yesterday’s post (”How You Improve”), that I thought I was finished with, and added a funny, new picture. I did CPR on my post! It is resuscitated!

The post briefly outlines:
The first 5 steps to becoming a more organized and accomplished person.

~Dane
http://bionicbutler.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-you-improve.html

BionicButler.com
“the art of improving personal productivity at home”

By: Robyn

Robyn — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:51:10 +0000

I used an old post and added you tube video to it, correct spelling & added a few other lines
http://outbackselfhelp.blogspot.com/2007/12/pay-ir-forward.html

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:19:40 +0000

I used an old post from last November that I felt the pictures didn’t match the title too much. I have collected more photos that I was going to write a new article about so I changed the title of the old post, deleted a couple of the pictures and added even more of my more recent pictures. I wrote a new short post and linked it back to the older post which I extended. It’s a twofer.

By: Suzanna B. Stinnett

Suzanna B. Stinnett — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:37:08 +0000

I knew the post I wanted to update as soon as I read the day’s task. I’d been thinking about doing something new with it. While I also see Samuel’s point, the thinking is a bit narrow. The post I chose is fairly short and not a big thought-piece or anything that is necessarily key to follow my trail of crumbs. It’s just a hello to Boomers, encouraging them to participate, which is something I do all the time. The reason I updated this one is that it posted it a year ago, and I have a lot more activity going on now than I did at that time. It’s a perfect time to pop it back up to the top. There are lots of posts I wouldn’t consider doing this with.

The graphic is really fun, worth a look just for that.

http://tinyurl.com/web550gift

Have fun everybody, life is but a dream.
Suzanna Stinnett

By: Caleb (Market Secrets Blogger)

Caleb (Market Secrets Blogger) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:18:54 +0000

Another way to breathe life into an old post is to simply use OldPostPromoter plugin…you can find it by doing a search using your WP admin ‘Add Plugin’ function ;)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:03:46 +0000

Wow, I had forgotten about some of the articles I had written when the blog started. Some of the content was actually pretty good, which was a relief to me!

I used to offer a service that has been discontinued – so I am starting to go through and remove the link to that website.

And thanks to the discussion forums, I have had some fantastic feedback about the blog. I had too many categories before, and am now going through old posts to reassign categories and make sure that the tags are okay.

I found this post and am hoping to drive some traffic there – I think it definitely worth a discussion…but probably wrote it when nobody was reading my blog :-) It’s about the idea of the “Clean Plate Club” and the pressure that that can put on kids to eat more food than their bodies can accommodate.

http://whatscookingblog.com/2008/08/17/clean-plate-club/

By: carla

carla — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:08:35 +0000

This is such a great idea. A lot of my older posts gets more attention than my newer ones. I just updated a few that are in my archives but are still going strong.

By: Ecommerce Web Design

Ecommerce Web Design — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:06:58 +0000

Interesting idea since most bloggers never do this. Highly recommend reading other comments to this post before deciding if this is right for you.

By: ezFreeSamples.com

ezFreeSamples.com — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:24:37 +0000

This will work for some of my blogs, I am not sure I can breathe life back into an old post on my http://www.ezfreesamples.com site, as the free sample trial periods will most likely be over by a later date, I update it daily, as the samples run out after a few days in most cases, a few weeks in others.