Do You Recycle....Your blogs I mean?
What do I mean by this? Well...I started this blogging journey a while ago, but 
really didn't know what I was doing or how to do it. Anybody else in this boat?
really didn't know what I was doing or how to do it. Anybody else in this boat? So, despite not knowing how to write decent content or anything about SEO, colors, fonts, cool pictures, (or anything that would remotely make my blog entertanining) and having no idea just what in the heck Google Juice was and how it could help me in my business, I started to write anyway. I just figured I would dive right in and figure it all out some day. I mean, I saw all these other Active Rain Success stories and just knew that if I kept at it, I would too some day have my own success story to share with everyone.
Well...I never figured it out by myself, go figure. I was always on the outside looking in when folks were talking about getting business from their blogs. I just figured that it takes a long time and that someday I would "get it". Well...when I didn't "get it" for the business aspect of bloggng, I decided I had to go and find it by taking some special classes through this person you may already know. Her name is Katerina Gasset and she gives these great classes called SEO to the Top. I highly recommend it by the way if you are in my boat or have any idea what I am talking about.
Anyway, the little I have learned thus far is that true SEO is found in these special thingys called keywords and those you need to figure out for your own market. Now, of course, there is a lot more to the classes and SEO, but it is a start and I have since learned how to make my blogs a tad more entertaining, (at least they are to me), which brings me to the point of this little blog, (don't roll your eyes, I was gettin to it).
Are there blogs way back in the past that you wrote and wondered why no one responded? This is content you just knew should be featured or at the very least have 100 comments. Do you have hyperlocal content that is just sitting there with very little activity? You can look that up on your statistics page by the way. This will give you an idea of how many folks are clicking through to your blog, (just in case you didn't know).
Well, if you have improved on your blogging techniques and or SEO, (or both) and want to jazz up those old posts you can do that and perhaps give your content a little more boost. All you need to do is go back and put the original post back into draft mode and then you can edit it from there, (if you just edit it, it won't show up as new. You must put it in draft mode first).
Perhaps now you know how to put in colors in your fonts, or a different type of font. Maybe now you can put some better photos on your blog or update you hyperlocal posts with actual hyperlocal keywords that will help you get your content better noticed. Perhaps now you are a better writer than you were when you started this journey, (I know I am...I think) and you can update your content with more meaninful stuff. Either way, it's pretty easy to recycle your blogs.
By the way, you will not get more points for this blog, unless this time around it gets featured, (which you thought it should have been anyway). You may get a few more points for comments left on your post, but that is about it. This is just a way for you to refresh some content that you thought was good in the first place and you want to make it better and get that wonderful content NOTICED.
Anway, we all know that recycling is good for the environment so it can't be all that bad for some of that Active Rain content that just needs a little updating! Recycle Away :)!
Blog Updated to Add: These blogs will also probably NOT count for the 31 Days of May challenge that a lot of you are participating in. Just want to clarify that it is for you to get more mileage out of posts that you wrote a while ago that may not have gotten a lot of notice before. Lots of Luck :)!
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