Evergreen Content: What it is and Why you Need it on your Site or Blog
Evergreen Content: What it is and Why you Need it on your Site or Blog
- Our SEO mentioned that our site lacked any Evergreen Content and that adding some would really help us draw increased long-term traffic. Can you explain this concept in more detail and provide us with some examples and advice on how this content differs from what we are doing now?
Answer:
Your SEO is correct. Evergreen content is a fantastic addition to any blog
or site and can result in long-term increased traffic, incoming links, engagement,
and social media signal generation. Basically, evergreen content can be
defined as the following:
"Content that retains its value over time and has virtually no expiration date."
Evergreen content can be described as a "submit it and forget it" type of marketing collateral. It can be an article, blog post, white paper, infographic or even video — but for something to be defined as evergreen in nature it must remain relevant for long, sometimes indefinite, periods of time. In other words, a piece of evergreen content would be as relevant and useful to your site audience now as it was when it was published.
Here at Search Engine News we make it a point to publish evergreen content on a regular basis. This is content that we know will be relevant to our subscribers not only when it's published, but months and years down the road.
These types of content pieces usually answer a question, fulfill a need or provide guidance on a topic, event or strategy that is not seasonally affected. For example,
