5 Zombie-licious Ways To Make Use Of A Dead Blog
By Matt Jones on Apr 29, 2008 in Creative Blogging
This has to be one the most commonly shared experiences in the blogosphere.
You start a blog, publish lots of posts for a few weeks (or maybe a couple of months) but you find yourself not earning as much as you would like and ideas for blog posts are starting to become harder to find. You end up reducing your posting frequency down to just once or twice per week and then you stop posting altogether. The blog is dead and you are frustrated at having wasted all that time and only earning a few Adsense dollars.
If that has happened to you all is not lost!
Your “dead” blog has value and can still be resurrected to help you make money online!
5 Ways To Make Use Of A Dead Blog
1. Write sponsored posts from sites such as PayPerPost. PayPerPost (and other sites like it) have such massive inaccuracies in their blog ranking systems that they chances are your so called “dead” blog still has a high enough ranking to earn the same amount per post as it did when it was still alive. I say use that to your advantage!
2. Plug your current blogs and new blogs that you launch. When I launch a new blog a problem is that it can take a long time to get indexed in the search engines. Knocking together a quick post about your new blog will have it indexed the next time your old blog is crawled. An advantage of owning a dead make money online blog is that blogging about a new blog fits the niche!
3. Add your new blogs to your dead blogs blogroll. Simple but effective. Do this in moderation and at your own risk. Blogroll (sitewide sidebar links) are more dangerous because you are linking from every single page on your blog, which can put the site you are linking to in danger of penalization because 100s of links suddenly appearing is somewhat suspicious.
4. Use it as a link trading epicenter. 3 way (or 4 way or more) link trades are a way to help disguise the deliberate trading of links and your dead blog can be used as a way to gain links for your new blogs.
5. Leave a “current projects” post. This is simply a post left as the last post on the blog listing your current blogs and projects. Rather than writing a new post when you launch a new blog you just edit this one to include the new blog.
Disclaimer:
To some humans, search engines and zealots, bringing a blog back from the dead to perform these wicked deeds is offensive and should be done so at your own risk.
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Excellent and unique article, with some great ideas as well. Plus the title is really eye-catching! (However, you have an extra ‘Ways’ in it).
Thanks for the great post!
gosh my head must be filled with Zombie brains!
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I thought this was a really good post too Matt, surprised there aren’t more comments…
Good ideas Matt. There are always uses to for internet real estate. It’s always a shame to let a site die.
Great post! Dead blogs tend to get a bit quiet though.. it might be a bit difficult to breathe life into them..
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All my blogs are dead.Man I have been working this with all 1,432 of my dead ass blogs:)I was laughing cause the only blogrolls I’m on are my own can’t argue with yourself:)
Hey. I have one semi-dead blog that I was thinking of deleting, but then I thought maybe I should use it to promote my other blog, so your post is good timing! Thanks!