Don't Miss Opportunities to Reuse Your Content

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byBIS
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Like most people I receive a lot of rubbishy emails, most of which get deleted but occasionally something catches my eye and I decide to investigate further. Well when I received an email this week about automatic software for creating infographics from content you've already written - I had to investigate further.

It turned out to be a waste of time because the tool isn't ready as implied in the email - it's just in the early stages of development and seeing what has been produced so far - I won't be looking again!

However it did act as a reminder that it's not always necessary to create content from scratch. Sometimes you have content that can be worked in a different way.

Reusing your content

A single article - can be turned into:

  • A different type of article
  • An infographic
  • A pod cast
  • A video
  • Pinterest pins
  • Presentation
  • Twitter tweets

Well no guessing what I decided to do on this occasion. I took an article that I published in Street Articles - Finding Ideas For Article Writing When You Are Out And About - Advice For Newbies and turned it into an infographic. This is the result.

You can see the full-sized infographic here

If you've had a quick glance at Street Articles you'll see how easily I have created similar content in a different form. I intend to write a new article which will be posted long with the infographic to a new site I'm working on.

Infographics might not be for you, but there's plenty of scope for turning your content into different media. You don't always have to re-invent the wheel.

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Brilliant!

Thank you. Glad you liked it.

It was also mentioned that we can change dates on our posts. If we do that, is the new date counted as a brand new post although it was originally published earlier?

I wouldn't do that at all. That is just duplicate content. It is always the first that will count.

Been enjoying all your info graphics. Today, thinking I saw a misspelling, looked up the word hoardings. I know them as billboards. I love learning at the WA.
Thank you, Beverley.

Oh there could well be a misspelling - it's easy to let them through - but on this occasion its just my British English as opposed to American English. I often switch but not on this occasion. Glad you're enjoying them.

FYI - The British word 'hoardings' are billboards. Also hoarding is an animal behavior of accumulating food during scarcity or a human mental illness of items accumulated for no apparent reason.
Am a habitual dictionary user. Especially of words used I don't know the meaning of and those words used in an unfamiliar context.
Guess that is what happens to teachers who are perpetual learners. LOL.

Reuse is a great idea. For days when you are lacking to create content go back to something you already created. Beverly, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for taking the time to read and comment.

Once u have the infographic.....what do you do with it?

thanks for sharing

Hi - I use infographics on my sites - and I shall write a 10 tips article to go with this one which will probably take me about another 10 minutes.

Very interesting. I like the idea of reuse - recycle to keep it fresh :)

Thanks - Darlene. It's definitely worth looking at the different ways you can use things without constantly have to re-invent - as long as you keep them fresh for your readers.

I think you just had a great idea. Re-purposing our articles and posts, I'm going to look and see what I can find of my own. Thanks Beverley!

LoL - It's something I have done quite a lot of in the past - but not so much recently. But seeing some of the articles i did for SA - that are now 2 or 3 years old - they are certainly worth revisiting.

Very good info Thank you

Thanks Tommy

Beverley,

Interesting the ways how to re-use my own articles. Maybe with one article I can create 5 - 10 different articles. Go to know!

But i wonder about the Google ranking. Not sure.

Ha - Ha. You can easily rework articles - You just don't want to put them all on your site.. And Google has no problem at all with reworked articles as long as you do them properly.

Hmm interesting!. But works with different subdomains?

Jorge - I'm not suggesting that you write identical articles. You can use bits of articles or whole articles and rework them - but they won't have the same keywords or titles or identical content. Until you've perfected writing articles - don't you dare try!! I'll show you one day exactly what I mean.

Fab. Thank you Sweetie :)

Another good one, thanks. I've gone through my site and have done a few videos based on the content there and then post them on YouTube. I'm thinking one day I will try infographics myself.

Thanks Rick
Sensible you. It's good to turn some of your stuff into video. I think most of use tend to stick with what we find fairly comfortable - but you should try the infographics sometime and I should definitely to more video.

Your on! Which info program do you like? I use Screencast-o-matic (I'm on a PC) :)

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