As a blogger, there are tons of different and much needed social media tools to use as part of your blogging arsenal. We have previously talked about needed plugins and social media tools. Some are free, and some are paid. In an ever evolving landscape of the online world, you have to determine what doesn’t work, but more importantly what works for you. As part of the online tools that l find very effective, l want to share with you one of my favorite tools to date, Recurpost.
Recurpost is a social management tool that helps to breath new life into your old posts. As a blogger, you put your heart and soul into your writing. There is a mantra that is commonly said in the blogging world. Your writing should be 20% and your promotion should be 80%. It took me a very long time to find that out. When l was starting out, everyone said to keep writing good content. That is all well and good. What sucks is writing all that content but having just you and your mom be the only readers. Constant promotion is a much needed part of your social strategy. This is where Recurpost comes in.
Free, Simple & Powerful Blogging Tool : Recurpost
I started using Recurpost about a month ago. I wanted to try it out myself before recommending it to others. I find it so easy to setup and use. The dashboard is extremely friendly and clean. Often, after writing a post, l tweet it, put it on Facebook and Google plus. Most of the time, it becomes forgotten pretty quickly. Recurpost allows you to add your blog feed to the accounts that you set up. It then pulls from your content library and schedules it automatically or on a schedule that you assign. When it’s all done with the current, it starts the rotation all over again without you having to lift a finger. How awesome is that, especially for evergreen content? .
There is also an editorial calendar which shows you what is being publicized and when. You can edit the description if you like, add hashtags or change the image. You can also shuffle the posts which l love. I tend to write in an editorial style, meaning writing in the order of occurrence. This might mean l have 6 posts about Japan, one right after the other. The shuffle ability changes this up which l like, mixes Japan with Spain for instance in an effort to attract a wider audience.
The standard free plan lets you set up 3 social media accounts with 100 Recurring Updates. You also have the Editorial Calendar and unlimited RSS feed, even an Analytics Report. I have really come to love Recurpost and l find that my old forgotten posts are getting new life via Facebook and Twitter. I only wish l had discovered this earlier, but better late than never. The next plan up from the free plan is Medium plan which costs $25/month. This lets you add 10 accounts and 1,000 updates. I intend to move up to this plan once l have a sizable library of content for this blog. I definitely think you should consider adding Recurpost to your blogging arsenal. It is easy, free and effective! I couldn’t be happier with the results and l hope you will find it helpful as well.
Have you heard of Recupost? If yes, what do you think? If not, do you think it will help with breathing new life into your old posts? For me, it really is a free, simple and powerful tool.
I’ve never heard of recurpost but I will definitely be checking it out this evening. My evergreen content needs some new eyes for sure. Thanks for sharing.
It’s a good one. It’s such a clean interface too. I really like it. I noticed CoSchedule just added their own version of it as of yesterday too 🙂
This looks like a robust tool. I’ll spend some time playng with it today. You reminded me of something important in your post – ‘your writing should be 20% and your promotion should be 80%’. This will be handy for me on the days I feel like I’m spending too much time online promoting when all I reant to do is write.
It’s true that l do the same thing. Feel guilty about promoting too much, but when you think about it, the whole purpose is to get people to read the stuff 🙂 . It is a really good one.
Okay, I’ve never heard of this tool but I’d love to see how it works. I like that it will automatically send out stuff for me. That’s super cool.
Send stuff out forever 🙂 . Just add your feed for the site and it can pull it automatically or you can approve before it posts. Loving it!
This sounds great! I just started blogging so I don’t have any old content yet but when I do I’ll have to check Recurpost.
What you can do is turn your feed on and set it to retweet or google plus or Facebook on a weekly basis. You don’t have to have a lot of stuff to use it, it just grows with you.
I just heard of recurpost a few weeks ago. I’ve started adding some things to it but haven’t utilized it yet as part of my social media strategy. I need to get on it.
I really love the fact that it’s bringing some new views to the site. I need to optimize it fully, but so far, l am liking the results 🙂
I’ve never heard of this but thanks for sharing. I will look into it more.
I think you’ll like it. It’s very helpful 🙂
Never heard of this, but I think this is something that I need to look into! It sounds perfect for bloggers like me. Thanks for sharing!
I like the fact that you turn your feed on, make a schedule and forget it forever. It’s wonderful for evergreen content 🙂
I don’t have an editorial calendar and I know I should. I do believe in giving new life to old post. I need to check out recurpost.
It’s definitely worth it. It just keeps on going like the energizer bunny since the life span of a tweet or post is just so short 🙂
What a great tool. Never heard of Recurpost until today.
You’ll love it. It’s nice to see new views on my older articles 🙂
This would save me some time and possibly increase my traffic. I am totally willing to give it a try.
That’s what l said when l heard about it too. So far, it’s working to get some new traffic to my old posts.
This is awesome! I’ve never heard of it but I’m signing up immediately. The only other plugin/app that does this, that I know of, is super expensive. Thanks for the info!
You’re welcome! I was also thinking of the expense of the other one and l didn’t want to do that for sure :-). I love the fact that you have 3 accounts for free to try forever.
I’ll definitely check it out. My numbers have taken a dip since I have been in school and I haven’t been as diligent about putting out older evergreen content.
This would work swimmingly for you then. I am loving it so far since l turned on the feed. Love getting some new hits 🙂
I’ll definitely be checking this out. One of my goals in the new year is to get my evergreen content out there!
Cool! I think you’ll like it. I have definitely seen a spike in the number of views. Hopefully it will keep increasing as time passes. The life span is so short for tweets and such, every little helps.