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Recycling: New Blog Posts From Old
One of the biggest struggles in keeping a blog up-to-date is figuring out something new and interesting to write new blog posts. But I’m going to let you in on a little secret: you don’t always need something new to write a new blog post. Sometimes you can take something old and just revive it.
How long have you been blogging?
Consider this: if you’ve had a blog for four years and you’ve posted twice a week every week, that’s over 400 posts. That’s a lot of content!
Now, think about this: There are things you wrote about four years ago that are still an issue today. But just like you aren’t going to read a newspaper from four years ago to find out about today’s political issues, people might not read your post from four years ago about a problem you can solve for them.
Does that mean those 400 posts are wasted? Should you just give up on blogging? Of course not!
Write fresh new blog posts
What it does mean is that you should search your blog now and then to see what’s there. What did you write a year ago, two years ago, four or six years ago that you could write about again today?
For example, if you write about pregnancy, you might have a post about maternity clothing trends. Obviously clothing…
