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How do u get people to look at your older posts?
Posted by brianomaracroft • 18 days ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: archived, funniest, humor, old posts, postings
In the past week or so, I've seen a huge increase in the number of visitors to my humor blog (Lost in the Hive). Most of those who visit and comment (thanks, by the way) do so only on the more recent stories.
If you're confident that the quality of the stories is comparable, is there an effective way to get visitors to check out the earlier stories? One idea I had was to make a post every three months or so that is a "best of" with highlights from the past several postings.
Any other ideas?
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Put an ad on CraigsList. Ha, I could not resist. Don't mean to be a smart aleck.
That isn't a bad idea at all. You could link them right back into your post. Another way is for your archives in the sidebar to be close to the top; perhaps with a text box directly above it inviting readers there. Or, at the end of each blog, try this.
* If you enjoyed this story, you might like this one or that one and provide the links to older and similar blogs there.
See ... I'm not just another pretty piece of pie.-
great idea...thanks.
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Gunpoint generally works, but then there's that whole police report thing that it's just best to avoid. Keep it as a last resort. -
Have sexy enticing words in the title-
Get over the sexy stuff for goodness sake. Come up with something classier.
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Sex is all-time classic. Go grab the geni*als and they will follow
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I just keep my fingers crossed. -
Try LinkWithin! It's super easy, though as far as I can tell it doesn't let you specify which previous posts to highlight. It just chooses some that it thinks relate to the current post. Worth a look. LinkWithin.com. -
As Lesley suggested the Link Within widget thing works well, I had it on my last template and it worked. It messes with my latest template though, so had to take it off.
I always link back to previous articles in any post, normally if posts have a theme and you use the same tag, I then link to the tag. -
Brian, I am experimenting with a link back to an index. My blog Her Side Funnies, has really a divided content - one being all about slipforming a stone home, and the other is comical stories about parenting, tending goats, making brandy, etc. I add a link at the top and bottom of each story allowing readers to go back to the indexes. That has helped some of the older posts a lot. The other thing is that some of these reader visits are really a courtesy visit, i.e., they just want to prove they visited your blog - because you visited theirs. They are jumping in and back out so quickly that it really does harm to your bounce rates. If the search engines find that people are hitting your sites and bouncing back out rapidly, they conclude that your site didn't fulfill the search need and this negatively impacts your positioning.
My index is about 3 weeks old and I think it is a good way to go. -
I also want to know how to get MYSELF to look at my own older posts.
a] I don't want to accidentally repeat myself, having totally forgotten that I have looked at a particular issue before.
b] Having done more reading or having received feedback from other people, I may have modified my opinion about an issue during the last year or two. It would be nice to create a link back from a recent post to the original post.
c] It would be nice to get some sort of "overview" of my own posts published in the past. So if I said I was going to discuss all of Europe and yet most of the old posts cover only Britain and Austria, perhaps some refocusing might be needed.
Do other bloggers read their OWN past posts?-
Are you using tags/category titles for each subject?
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That's why I love my index. It might be cumbersome if I posted daily, or on similarly titled subjects, but it has been very helpful for me in organizing my content. Secondly, if I ever wanted to publish, I'd have it easily at my fingertips - also knowing which were the most popular.
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1)use cloud tags
2)link post from your latest post " :"You may also like..." thingy.
3)also when you mention some thing similar to other posts..hot link it.
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I do a lot of the tips above...although recently took the LinkWithin widget off since I didn't like not having control over which past posts it suggessted.
I do get random comments on old posts but many followers just read the new stuff which comes up in the dashboard.
Ultimately I've begun "bumping" (changing post date to more recent) my older favorite posts from before I had a lot of readers/followers.
Just did that yesterday actually with one of my "most embarrassing moment" stories. Also a great way to give people something which is 95% chance "new" to them when I don't have time to write for a few days. -
I have a "my faves" list that gets clicked on quite a bit. Also, from time to time, I link an older post in my current post and that seems to get several clicks that end in someone rummaging through my archives. -
Switch the dates....HELLERRRR!!!!!
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This is Source Blogger.
1) Try to place links in newer posts to older articles. (Know Your Inventory!)
2) Review your site's navigation.
3) Avoid link baiting to just your homepage. Draw traffic to areas of your blog you want them to read.
4) If Wordpress, use Most Popular Posts PlugIn, or if, Blogger, use LinkWithin.
Source-Blogger dot com -
I actually find it pretty easy to accomplish with a combination of relevant links within newer posts and selective promotion of older posts that aren't "dated" by their content. If you're not linking to one or two older posts in virtually every one of your new posts, you're missing a great opportunity. -
I don't display the dates on my posts so that people don't know if they are old or new. I don't think they should be discriminated against by their age. -
That'll work to.
M'k so what's a plug in -
Repost them. Perhaps, update or put up a new (or add) a pic or two
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DaniG: I think your index page is a great idea. Just checked your blog and it works very well. I may try it listing categories, if I can figure out how to do a 2 column listing... -
They'll read them if they want to. -
Cake and cookies.-
More like promises of nearly nude women...
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Cake= boobs
cookie= well you know.
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I have cocktails with little umbrella's. -
So, using Derek's code, you have nude men? -
lmao
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Hehehehe
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An umbrella would be... painful
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DB - I'm not sure how you would use the umbrella...mine are quite innocent.
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Great suggestions all...thanks so much!
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