Comments on: Reviving Old Blog Posts – 5 Tips for Making Past Posts Popular

By: Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:37:10 +0000

That’s great, Clare, that you found a great way to revive your old blog post. Nice!

By: Clare

Clare — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:34:36 +0000

Thanks for the tips! I tweeted this old post about Darth Vader to someone styling themselves @DarthVader on Twitter because it was Star Wars Day.... and got more than 2000 visits when he retweeted it!!

By: Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:11:35 +0000

Thanks for your comments — I appreciate your help in keeping this old blog post popular

By: Karen @ Pledging for Change

Karen @ Pledging for Change — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:42:31 +0000

One of the things that I have done to keep old posts alive is to set my home pages rss feeds to change all posts randomly instead of newest to oldest.

I am also working with a RSS include now and any RSS feeds can be randomly posted too (and PHP so the spiders can read them)
Not that I have got millions of visitors yet btw

Another way is to encourage community with commenters and making sure they are acknowledged and rewarded properly. I believe in dofollow for this but not everyone does.

If you have a community of commenters then once someone comments on an old post the others often follow suit. ( Wishful thinking?? ha ha )

By: Vicky

Vicky — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:20:40 +0000

Hi Laurie!

I am part of a “community” of bloggers and one of our last initiatives is exactly to revive old posts. Bloggers will send me the link for the post of their preference, saying why we would like to read them. This information form a new post in our list-blog.

We work as a meeting point for people who once had their blogs reunited in a newspaper that decided to disolve the community. The solution we found for not to be disconected from each other was to leave links from our blogs in a list-blog http://enjeitadosdogo.blogspot.com/. It is in Portuguese, but you can get an ideia.

I’m loving your blogs!
.-= Vicky´s last blog post ..On Babysitting and screaming babies =-.

By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:50:59 +0000

Laurie,

Recently I’ve had newcomers to the blog comment on some older posts. It’s been a while since I’ve reviewed my archives and I’ve realized there is some stuff there from my early days that apply even today!

Thanks for these tips, I’m going to work on this today!

George
.-= Tumblemoose´s last blog post ..Inspired Writing for any Writing Project =-.

By: Ana

Ana — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:58:07 +0000

From the list on Making old blog posts popular I act on 1, 3 and 4 from time to time. I do find that I am bringing them back to life in a sense, and it helps to point them out to users too. .-= Ana´s last blog post ..Choices of energy in rhythm =-.