SEO experts know well that repurposing email newsletter content is more than just slapping it up on some blog or website while hoping that it ranks and you don’t get bitten by the Google SERPent. The most effective way to post content which has already appeared in an email newsletter is to essentially rewrite it so that the subscriber who happens to read the same basic content on your website does not see the value of your newsletter diluted.
After all, what’s the point in subscribing to an “exclusive & elite” email newsletter if the valuable tips are available to anyone on a public site? However, there are other SEO advantages which may be obtained via the metamorphosis of email newsletter content and some relate directly to Google Panda/Farmer.
Repurposed newsletter content is SEO Google Gold
Repurposing email newsletter content is both an art and a science. Part of the science is being able to adequately reword each sentence while retaining the essence of the original. Part of the art is in ensuring that the rewritten article reads as smoothly as if it had been written originally in this manner. A very popular form of email newsletter content is the Top X List of tips for this, that, or the other thing.
When rewriting this type of article you can’t just parrot the same list, so the recommended strategy is to take each numbered tip and turn it into a paragraph rather than a bullet list, and mixing up the order. You might also want to leave a couple of the “hottest” tips out and reserve them exclusively for your loyal subscribers.
It is also highly advisable that you soften up the hard sell within the content, as many newsletters are dedicated to promoting the call to action to the detriment of just about everything else. The resultant article is not only SEO Google Gold, but it’s also different enough from your email newsletter content that your subscribers won’t cry foul.
Sub-Domaining spikes SERPs
The Google Panda/Farmer algorithm shift was the equivalent of a tsunami in the SEO world. Virtually overnight, a number of high ranking sites in the Alexa Top 500 disappeared beneath the waves. Hubpages was one of the sites hit hardest by the Google Panda/Farmer algorithm change, and it took them several months to figure out that they could regain some of their lost SERPs by breaking up their site into thousands of sub-domains.
Each of the many writers on Hubpages now has their own domain: janedoe.hubpages.com. In just days from implementing, this rainbow of sub-domains SERPs and traffic increased measurably. What the Hubpages restructuring does not take into consideration is the subject matter which each writer may be discussing. If a writer is blogging about motorcycles, computers, and cats, there is still ample lost opportunity for SERP optimization, calling for possibly a further sub-domaining: motorcycles.janedoe.hubpages.com would be thus differentiated from cats.janedoe.hubpages.com.
Any content category can be a sub-domain
Let’s assume that you issue three email newsletters based on the type of white hat SEO strategies you implement:
- Internal & Reciprocal Linking
- Website Optimization
- Content Creation & Placement
Once you’ve adequately rewritten the content, you can place it into specific sub-domains such as:
- linking.supercalifragialisticseo.com
- optimization.supercalifragialisticseo.com
- content.supercalifragialisticseo.com
What Google’s indexing bots will see is nicely structured subdomains each containing high quality, unique content which is laser focused for specific topics, and “should” reward it accordingly.
A constant in the ever-changing rules
The only constant in the SEO universe is that the rules change all the time. By repurposing and rewriting your email newsletter content and segregating each overall topic into its own sub-domain you may not be able to assure #1 position on every keyword under the sun in perpetuity, but you certainly will be harnessing a capable and powerful way to keep providing Google and your readers with high value content.
