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When sharing evergreen content, establish pathways to help followers find it again down the road, and to make it discoverable to new audiences. This means making full use of platform-specific discovery features, and, when appropriate, republishing content to other channels.Some tips:

• Carefully construct titles, keywords, tags and/or descriptions. Make sure you’re accurately and helpfully describing your content in a way that search engines will be able to interpret and surface. This includes both web search engines like Google and in-network search engines, like Tumblr’s (recently much improved) search functionality.
• When uploading a video to Facebook or Twitter, also upload it to YouTube, where it’ll be easier to tag and can be catalogued in search results.
• Collect related social media updates/campaigns and embed them in blog post round-ups. This surfaces them to a new audience and gives them a permanent, centralized home on your owned platform. This is also a great chance to present content shared on different social networks all in one place — Instagram shots next to embedded Tweets next to YouTube videos. Be sure to add any context a reader will need to understand the material.

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When you’ve shared something great that followers can enjoy for months or years to come, don’t let them forget about it. The secret is making sure you don’t forget about it either. When you publish any high-quality content with long-term relevance, make a plan for re-sharing it in three months, or six months, or even a year. Add it to youreditorial calendar or set yourself a personal calendar reminder. This helps ensure that newer followers of your brand get to see this past content as well.

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Look for contextual opportunities to resurface past content. For instance, you can link to an old video when its subject comes up in a blog post, or tweet a past infographic when making a related product announcement.Tailoring unique content to each of your publishing channels doesn’t have to mean limiting its audience or how often followers appreciate it. With proactive categorization and smart repurposing, your niche content can continue to resonate for months or years to come.