Imagine it - you write a fantastic post, it gets circulated around the internet and linked to from a million other sites. You’re happy, you’re excited and you’re making money online!

But then….it’s gone. Well…from the front page of your site at least.

It’s incredibly easy for once popular posts to become hidden in the ‘Archives‘ of your site and lost to any new visitors who may be reading your site for the first time. How are they meant to find your killer content? Even if you’ve got a search field and all your posts neatly categorized, it’s incredibly difficult for a new visitor to find your great content once it has slipped off the front page.

The solution? A popular posts list!

You can see that I’ve added this to my site right at the top where it’s incredibly obvious and easy to find for even the blindest of newbie visitors.

I was a little hesitant at first to dedicate such an important and highly visible area of the page to this list considering that long-time readers of the site would have read these already and it wasn’t adding anything to their experience.

But the result has been fantastic!

What was once old is new again and new visitors to my site have found these posts useful and informative. New bloggers have created new links to these posts! Posts that I once thought were lost to the archives have had a new breath of fresh air injected into them.

My advice? Create a popular posts list - even if it only contains one post - and keep that killer content that you’ve worked hard on easily accessible for any new visitors to your site.

It’ll keep your posts profitable for longer!