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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:44:49 +0000

I republish manually because non of the plugins do what I want. Welcome aboard. Let me know if you see anything technically out of whack, I'll fix it. .-= Dave´s last blog ..How Moderating Comments On Your Blog Destroys Conversation =-.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:32:39 +0000

Exactly.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:30:29 +0000

This is a really, really good idea. I should write a plugin to do it. If I could find the time. .-= Dave´s last blog ..What the Heck is Pillar Content and Why Do I Need It? =-.

By: Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:20:39 +0000

Normally, I would’ve just written something new and linked to the post on chores. I’m finding that people don’t often click links – certainly not until they trust the blogger. I believe that in-context ad links are making people very wary of hypertext. But these are good posts, with information I find myself linking to when answering a question – like “how do you feel about paying kids to do chorese?” Knowing it will be fresh for most of my current readers, a year or two later, why not run a reprint?
.-= Holly Jahangiri´s last blog ..Chores: to Pay, or Not to Pay? =-.

By: The Digital Life & Tools Blog

The Digital Life & Tools Blog — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:58:41 +0000

Hi, I just came over from Infopreneur and subscribed to your feed. Please do come and visit my blog at http://digitivity.org . Thanks.

I agree with recycling posts. As the blog author, sometimes I even forget what I’ve written in the past, so how are new people going to know?

What are you using for recycling posts? A plugin? The plugins I have seen reset the publication date. I’m not sure I want to mess with the date (what effect does that have on Google?).
.-= The Digital Life & Tools Blog´s last blog ..After the iPad: the Google Tablet? =-.

By: Benxamin

Benxamin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:55:01 +0000

Just to invest the time to inventory all your content. It’s worth it to separate the wheat from the chaff, especially if one is monetizing their blog.

Pull up your analytic reports and look at your tops hits. Put those in a spreadsheet. Then look at your top inbound links. Put those in a new worksheet (same file). Then sort the data by date, by keyword/topic, by browser, etc.

The idea is to distill your core audience by finding-out what content works and what doesn’t. You can only find out so much about your users from the reports: what times of day they visit? Which days? What browsers do they use? etc. Every bit helps.

Although, based on all the comments here, I bet you have a pretty good grasp of who your audience is.
.-= Benxamin´s last blog ..Firefox and the A IMG Combo =-.

By: Benxamin

Benxamin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:34:16 +0000

As part of a well-developed content strategy, you need to seriously watch every permalink that has an inbound link. Managing the top-hit articles to keep them fresh is a great idea.

And take note of content patterns that yield few or no hits.

By: Cebu Tech Blogger

Cebu Tech Blogger — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:26:24 +0000

I am quite excited of trying your suggestion, Dave. I was also stumbled to Nick Cardot’s post regarding this and it seems like this (re-publishing) approach is effective. I think no need to research more. Maybe I should do this for those articles that were not really driving much traffic and behind of my pillar contents.
.-= Cebu Tech Blogger´s last blog ..Google Chrome Supports Greasemonkey =-.