If not, you should. When I first started blogging I didn’t have any readers. Occasionally someone would happen by but for the first several months no one knew about my blog because I didn’t know anything about promoting my blog. It was a good year or more before I had a healthy readership. Which means I have a year’s worth of articles that no one has seen and when I hit the wall, or become to busy I can either link to a post on the front page of my blog and/or I can promote the old posts on Twitter or Stumble and get new traffic.

I love going back to old posts. Sometimes I have no recollection of writing the pieces and sometimes they are so bad I want to delete them. I don’t because they are part of my evolution as a writer and I like to see how far I have come. Other times I will find an old post that is pretty good and it’s nice to see that even back then I could write.

I suggest you dig back into your archives, find a few posts that you think were good and then promote them either through a link post on the front page or simply by Stumbling or Tweeting them. Your readers will appreciate seeing the old stuff and you never know, you might find a good post that with a little bit of tweaking could be a great post.

Today’s post is written by JennyBeans: JennyBeans is a fiction author, podcaster, editor and freelance writer from Northeastern PA. When she isn’t peddling audio and written fiction and poetry at The Inner Bean, she can be found sharing her thoughts on motherhood, parenting and family on KidWonderful. I have been a writer as long as [...]

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