Lean Startup, Startup Recruiting, Financing and Startup Accelerators

May 14, 2012 by Ben Yoskovitz 10 Comments

I’ve never found a great system for bubbling up older content on a blog. It’s so transient. Posts last a week at most and then they disappear into the archive.

I’ve tried a few things, and here’s my latest attempt to collect and organize some of my posts on key topics of interest. In the sidebar, you’ll see a section, Startup Resources, which includes links to pages where I’ve aggregated a bunch of content.

As I write new content that belongs in any of these sections, I’ll try and remember to add the links in. In the meantime, take a look and let me know what you think.

Hope you enjoy!

Rebecca Rachmany

Agreed, it is frustrating to write great content and then find it disappears into oblivion. But when I looked at the older blog posts (I’m such a good girl, it said “look at my old posts,” so I did.), I found that the comments were closed. Can you explain what the purpose is of closing comments? If you want your blog to live on and keep getting good search rankings, why close comments?
Benjamin Yoskovitz

Rebecca – That’s a fair point. It’s a setting in Disqus to turn comments off after X amount of time, because MOST comments on old posts are spam. Maybe I’ll turn that back on though and see if it changes how people interact with older content.
Rebecca Rachmany

OTOH, you know, if people can’t comment on the blog, maybe they have to share the link in some social network and then add their comment…
Anthony Panozzo

I’ve been working a little on a website to try to help out with this issue, it just gives you a new feed for a blog that will give you a post every other day. I tried it on your site and found
Things to Remember When Bootstrapping Your Start-Up
🙂 You can check it out if you want at http://feedrerun.com and let me know what you think!
Erik B.

From what I’ve gathered, perhaps just turn comments off for older, non-commented on posts. If there is a comment chain forming, good dialogue developing, then its a shame to have it closed after X time. But if there are zero comments, then it seems best to close it to keep the spammers out. Just a thought.
Alexander Hold

Shouldn’t it be possible to automate this posting of links to the different categories?
Benjamin Yoskovitz

Probably, but I like hand-picking and sorting the posts. I should and will probably automate it at some point. I’m not sure that the categories for each post are well defined either though.
Benjamin Yoskovitz

I turned comments back on for older posts, we’ll see what happens!
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