Content Marketing Strategy – 8 Ways to Create New Growth from Evergreen Content

If you've been pursuing a content marketing strategy for a few years, you have some content that worked and some that didn't work when you first published it. You also likely have content that's continuing to work for you in that it's still attracting new visitors. We hope you also have a good deal of content that, even though you may have created it years ago, is still largely accurate and relevant.

Reviewing the most successful pieces emerging from your content marketing strategy up to now provides the opportunity to create new growth from your evergreen content.

We have been doing that with our own content marketing strategy along with helping clients take advantage of the same opportunity: updating, reformatting, and enhancing evergreen content so it's primed to generate new visitors, subscribers, and audience members eager to download it.

8 Ways to Create New Growth from Evergreen Content

Here are 8 ideas to explore based on your top blog posts for ongoing traffic:

• Use your most popular evergreen blog posts along with related ones to create a new eBook. Freshen the content by re-editing the multiple pieces and adding new content. You can also enhance the content with new graphics and design.
• Freshen these blog posts with new infographics or graphic depictions and republish the blogs for newer readers.
• Aggregate multiple, related blog posts and republish those as a comprehensive article on a topic.
• Create videos to bring a more personal dimension to the evergreen content.
• Write the opposite angle of evergreen blog posts. For example, if it's about doing a certain number of things to accomplish a goal, write the list of things you should not do if you want to accomplish the same goal.
• Expand a list post by writing the details behind each of the items, providing greater depth.
• If you have a post that helps people learn how to do something or analyze a situation, turn it into a one-page download. This can make it an easy-to-use life or job aid.
• Using a popular list post as the basis, create an infographic as a new download.

Those are all great ways to get new growth from your evergreen content.

Exploiting your most popular content in this way will make the hardest working elements of your content marketing strategy produce even more results! – Mike Brown

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