Comments on: How to put your best blog posts back into the spotlight

By: TrafficBlogger

TrafficBlogger — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:28:08 +0000

Removing featured articles from the homepage and having lots of teasers is a good idea. Gives visitors lots of options. When I write some more article's I'll be converting to that.

By: David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:27:25 +0000

Thanks fir the ideas. I really should be tweeting older articles, and possibly updating and reposting.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:29:06 +0000

I've recently started to show random posts from my archive in the sidebar. My site doesn't have many visitors but I do find it makes me want to browse a lot more.

By: Kunal

Kunal — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:18:53 +0000

Another method that I use on one of my websites is to group old posts of the same topic and create a new post about that topic with links to the old posts.

By: Man Overboard

Man Overboard — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:50:26 +0000

Good post Marko. We just changed our stylesheet to display sticky excerpts of old posts on the front page. We’ve also just learned that google actually looks favorably on making revisions to older posts that have been dormant for a while so this should breathe new life into our old content.

By: Steen Öhman

Steen Öhman — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:29:29 +0000

Thaks for the good tip. Need to do somthing about this tomorrow.

It’s stupid to hide good articles, and it’s great if you in some cases can put older post back in the spotlight

By: type approval

type approval — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:58:43 +0000

I think that this could help me ho to the right blogger right?

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:05:27 +0000

Marko,

I regularly do the one you suggested about tweeting older articles. This seems to work really well for me.

By: Morgan Mandel

Morgan Mandel — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:30:34 +0000

I hadn’t thought of bringing older articles back into the spotlight on my same blog.

What I have done is take some of my older articles and post them on the group blogs I belong to.

Morgan Mandel
http://morganmandel.blogspot.com

By: LoneWolf

LoneWolf — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:35:11 +0000

Thanks Marko. Given that I’ve only been blogging about 5 months now and I’m not a prolific poster, I’ve only just begun to worry about this. My posts aren’t really “timely” so it would be nice to keep some of my favourites in the spotlight. Excellent ideas.

I’m going to look into making the front page and category pages hold teasers as you suggest. It will give me a good excuse to get under the hood of my themes some more — I still love to tinker with the PHP.