12 Ways to Evergreen Your Content

Subscribe to the Blog

Your email:

AcademyCTA



Post Onboarding Consulting Packages

Attend Live Webinars

Check out the upcoming #InboundLearning webinars and register to attend live. You'll get to ask questions and participate in the conversation.

See Upcoming Webinars

See the latest from HubSpot

Current Articles | RSS Feed RSS Feed

12 Ways to Evergreen Your Content

  
  
  

12 ways to evergreen your contentHere’s the situation. You have 40 blog articles that get hundreds of visits a month. However, you're only getting 10 leads per month and you need to be getting 30. You could create new pieces of content to bring that lead number to 30, or you could reuse your previous content.

Save yourself a lot of time and energy and go with option two. Your older content and blog articles are working because they’re getting hundreds of views per month.

This process is called “evergreening” your content. It’s when you use older, still relevant content, in a new format.  Blogging can be the ultimate source of evergreen content because there are so many ways you can reuse blog content. Here are some of my favorite ways to evergreen your content:

  1. Write a whitepaper or eBook from a collection of related blog articles
  2. Create a “How-to guide” using content from related blog articles
  3. Put together a kit of blog articles, guides, checklists, or webinars
  4. Create a Slideshare presentation from your webinar slides
  5. Use your blog content in your monthly newsletter
  6. Publish a press release promoting all of your free content
  7. Create a YouTube channel for all of your video content
  8. Write a blog article summarizing your five most popular blog articles
  9. Post old blog articles to your social media accounts
  10. Send a quarterly blog recap email to your leads and customers
  11. Use a presentation and write a blog article summarizing it
  12. Take a whitepaper and write a blog post summarizing the whitepaper

Use your creative juices and think about how you can get more mileage out of your existing content.  Everyone, including you, wins!

What are your favorite ways to evergreen your content?

Photo credit:  rosemary-demirkok

Comments

@Rachel: That is a terrific idea. I'm going to do a follow up article that complies all of the ideas our campers come up with.  
 
Keep the ideas flowing!
Posted @ Friday, December 09, 2011 3:12 PM by Mark Kilens
Love this post. 
 
 
 
My favorite "evergreen" technique is posting related Tweets together as a blog post. It's quick and easy to read and super easy to pull together. In fact, I always have a few of these waiting in the wings in case I need to fill in a day in a hurry on my blog schedule. Works like a charm! 
 
Rachel
Posted @ Friday, December 09, 2011 3:12 PM by Rachel Rodenborg
@Andy: I would take a snippet of compelling text (could be the article's takeaway) in the blog article and use that in your tweet or LinkedIn update, and have a shortened link to the blog article. 
 
@Laura: I agree completely and those are some great tips. Thanks for sharing! 
 
@Noelle: Great strategy so you don't flood the news feed or your fan's with status updates. 
 
Posted @ Friday, December 09, 2011 3:12 PM by Mark Kilens
Thanks for the good tips. I've set up an RSS feed for my Blog on my Facebook page and in this way, get away with posting very little content on my Facebook page.
Posted @ Friday, December 09, 2011 3:12 PM by Noelle Leahy
I think press releases are far too overlooked as a SEO strategy. That's my favorite idea in your list. And remember ... you can use old blog articles as a press release or content for the local paper. If your neighborhood weekly has 4,000 readers, sending a high-quality blog post to the editor could get you access to thousands more readers.
Posted @ Friday, December 09, 2011 3:12 PM by Laura Kinoshita
Can you provide instructions how best to repost blog articles through social media accounts? This is a timely post.
Posted @ Friday, December 09, 2011 3:12 PM by Andy Gustafson
there is a small typo: 
 
summarzing - summarizing 
 
nice ideas on recycling content.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:16 AM by Multi-Gyn
@Rachel: That is a terrific idea. I'm going to do a follow up article that complies all of the ideas our campers come up with.  
 
Keep the ideas flowing!
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:16 AM by Mark Kilens
Love this post. 
 
 
 
My favorite "evergreen" technique is posting related Tweets together as a blog post. It's quick and easy to read and super easy to pull together. In fact, I always have a few of these waiting in the wings in case I need to fill in a day in a hurry on my blog schedule. Works like a charm! 
 
Rachel
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:16 AM by Rachel Rodenborg
@Andy: I would take a snippet of compelling text (could be the article's takeaway) in the blog article and use that in your tweet or LinkedIn update, and have a shortened link to the blog article. 
 
@Laura: I agree completely and those are some great tips. Thanks for sharing! 
 
@Noelle: Great strategy so you don't flood the news feed or your fan's with status updates. 
 
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:16 AM by Mark Kilens
Thanks for the good tips. I've set up an RSS feed for my Blog on my Facebook page and in this way, get away with posting very little content on my Facebook page.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:16 AM by Noelle Leahy
I think press releases are far too overlooked as a SEO strategy. That's my favorite idea in your list. And remember ... you can use old blog articles as a press release or content for the local paper. If your neighborhood weekly has 4,000 readers, sending a high-quality blog post to the editor could get you access to thousands more readers.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:16 AM by Laura Kinoshita
Can you provide instructions how best to repost blog articles through social media accounts? This is a timely post.
Posted @ Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:16 AM by Andy Gustafson
Twelve awesome ideas! If you have a popular blog post that generates a lot of visits, why not make it an offer and use to generate leads? Ì would probably use one of our most popular blog posts, Adding a Facebook Like Button to Your Website in 4 Mins or Less as the basis for an eBook. The press release idea promoting all your free content is a great one also! We have over a hundred posts of free "how to" syle Internet marketing advice that businesses can use straight away!
Posted @ Thursday, August 09, 2012 5:15 PM by Rick Noel
Comments have been closed for this article.