5 Ways To Re-Use Articles After Submitting Them To Directories

You ordered 20 articles last summer and submitted them as many directories. They’re just sitting there collecting dust. Yes, they’re out in the Web world and some of them are being picked up by website owners and e-zine publishers. They’re getting used. Now what?

Don’t just let them sit there. You can re-use them. Here are five ideas to help you re-use those old articles and get more mileage out of them:

1. Turn them into web content - All you have to do to turn those articles into original, unique web content is rewrite them. It doesn’t take long. You can rewrite the content and even focus them on altogether different keywords without changing the meaning behind the articles.
2. Break them up into two shorter articles and put them on your blog – Yes, you can split each article up into two separate, shorter articles and re-use them on your blog. Cut each one in half, rewrite the content and put it on your blog. It might actually be quicker than writing a blog post from scratch.
3. Turn them into an e-book – Make those old articles pay for themselves. Compile them into an e-book and sell it or offer it as a free download to your website visitors.
4. Publish them in your company newsletter or e-zine - Other people are publishing them in their newsletters so why shouldn’t you? After all, you sent them to article directories so that newsletter and e-zine publishers can find them easily. Publish them in your own newsletter and get even more mileage out of them.
5. Offer them to other webmasters in exchange for their original articles – Only do this if you plan to rewrite the articles. You can offer them as original content to other website owners in exchange for their original article content and get a very important link back from the other site owner.

Just because you ordered articles a year ago doesn’t mean you can’t use them now. Rewrite them and republish them. The ideas may still be valid. It’s the content you want to repurpose.