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Posted By:
Harith
181 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Blogging
Matt Cutts wrote today asking for his visitors feedback: What should I do with my draft posts?
"Over the last 2+ years, I've written a lot of draft blog posts that I never published. Most of them are pretty sucky/rough, but not all of them. At this point, I've published ~584 posts and I’ve got about ~219 draft posts. After WordPress had a recent security hole that could expose draft posts, I'm planning on clearing out most of my draft posts. The question is: should I delete them all, or should I push some of them live, even though they're mostly low-quality? "
Anyone have strong opinions either way? Should I unload some of these leftover posts onto my blog, or try to keep my blog mostly higher-quality and just delete all those old/junky drafts?"
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~219 draft posts?! Wow, I thought I had a lot with about 20. I guess if you have more draft posts than you do actual posts, it may be time to be a little bit less particular about your content.
I would suggest outsourcing to a colleague for their 20% time to clean them up, and have the Googlers as guest bloggers on Matts blog.
I am sure what Matt has written would be a good framework for a collegue to expand on and get a little exposure in a less corporate environment.
I suggested to Matt :
- Create a category “My Incomplete Drafts”
- Upload to the above category those ~219 draft posts.