DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Revive Old Blog Posts Report

Now that we've updated the content and made sure it will make us money, let's make sure it looks good when our visitors come and visit the udpated blog posts.    We'll break this section down into two different parts. The first is basic formatting and the second one is adding images.  Formatting Your Blog Post    Having a well formatted blog post actually has two big benefits. It makes it easier to read, but it can also help with Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a big topic that's a bit out of the scope of this short report, but...

We’ve made it all the way to step 9. If you’ve been following along, reviving a blog post as you were reading through this, you noticed that this wasn’t that hard and not really all that much work. And the good news is that it gets easier. Some of the things like setting up social media buttons are already taken care of and you don’t have to do them again. Other tasks like finding blog posts to revive you can easily do in batches and you probably have at least a few more posts picked out at this point that...

There’s one more step to the process. It’s a little more content marketing you can do to get your revived blog post the best chance of taking off and getting spread far and wide. It’s also an easy way to stay in touch with your email subscribers and if you monetized the post, make a few bucks right away.  It’s adding the revived blog post to your email funnel. You can do this in a few different ways.  Send a quick email to your list to let them know you’ve updated the blog post. Invite them to click through and...

Now comes the exciting part. Everything is updated and ready to go. If you haven’t already done so republish or hit safe. Go look at your post and make sure everything looks the way you want it to. Try the links. Are they all working and are your affiliate links tracking ok?  Great. Now it’s time to get the ball rolling and give the post a little head start to get some traction.  Change The Date  Change the publish date to today’s date so your post shows up on the home page on your blog and gets send out via...

Let’s get back to something super simple. And since you’re blogging the biggest chunk of work in step six is something you only need to do once. Our task right now is to make sure it is easy to share our updated (and new) content via social media.    When we talked about images, I asked you to think about what social media sites are most important to you. Where is your traffic coming from? Where are you finding your target audience? Where are you making money? These are the social media sites you want to focus on here as...