Great article on evergreen content to drive traffic to your blog
I just stumbled upon this great post on the types of evergreen content that will drive traffic to your blog in the long run. Thought I might share it here.
In essence, the article lists 24 types of evergreen content that never gets old and as such should be on your list of content types to write for your blog.
1. Case Studies
2. Stats and Data
3. Product Reviews
4. The History of Something
5. How To Guides
6. Beginner’s Guides
7. Curate Content
8. Lists
9. Top Tips for People to Understand Your Industry
10. Best Practices
11. Checklists
12. Reference Books in Your Market
13. Rethink a Common Viewpoint
14. Refresh and Update Old Content
15. Definitions, Glossaries, Acronyms
16. Attack a Sub-Niche
17. Series of Tutorials
18. Strategies for Common Problems
19. Famous People Interviews
20. Failure Stories
21. Your Success Story
22. Storytelling
23. Encyclopedia Entries
24. Pros and Cons of Something
This helps me tremendously in varying my content types, hope it can help you plan your posts too.
More in-depth explanations can be found in the original post:
http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/9578/evergreen-conten...
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I'm doing a website selling prayer mat and I was thinking whether I want to have a page about history of prayer mat..quite reluctantly to do it cause I worried it look unattractive or maybe too dry ,.luckily I saw your this post ,and It's make my decision easier
Your readers need a bit of story telling sometimes :) go for it. If you're worried it may sound dry, insert pictures and a video in between.