{"id":16497,"date":"2018-10-28T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=16497"},"modified":"2018-10-28T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:10:06","slug":"how-to-re-create-the-digital-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/how-to-re-create-the-digital-content\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Breathe New Life into Buried Digital Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/internetinnovators.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/627-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cute little picture\" width=\"552\" height=\"552\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">There is a dilemma in the digital world, which we explored in some detail in a previous article: digital content on the internet is expanding rapidly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> very much so. Humans have invented a \u201cmedium\u201d that can be likened to a large, circular pool where all people with an internet connection gather, and where anyone <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">can share what they have for others to discover and benefit from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">But the problem is that this pool (the internet) is so vast that it can be difficult to find what you\u2019re looking for. It\u2019s true that humans have also invented a useful way <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">to help people find what they want: \u201csearch engines.\u201d But there are problems with using this tool\u2014which we discussed in the previous article. Here, we\u2019ll try to address<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> Some practical steps that can help solve the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">1. Re-enable hyperlinks<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">I could tell you that one solution to this problem can be found in a previous article about repurposing digital content. But the real solution lies in my mentioning the link itself, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Yes, the solution is simply to re-enable hyperlinks\u2014the web\u2019s original feature, present from the very beginning, which was soon neglected and ignored by <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">many content creators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Let me explain: when I mention a link to an older article related to the topic in the body of this article, I help bring that old content back to life and give it a fresh <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">wave of readers. And when a video publisher adds links to related sources or other videos in the description area (below the video), they are <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">It helps revive other content that may have fallen into a digital coma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">A healthy habit for bloggers and content creators of any kind is to breathe new life into their older work\u2014whether through sidebar banners highlighting featured articles, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">roundup guides to previously published material, or simply by linking to older content in new posts. And this shouldn\u2019t be limited to content from the same <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">source: good, useful links should be shared regardless of who published or wrote them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">2. Share, Then Share Again<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Social networks are an effective way to revive older content. Let me give you a real-world example: more than a year ago, I happened to read a thoughtful blog post <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">I found it useful, so I clicked the share button and posted it on my Twitter account. Although I have only a few followers, that tweet\u2014 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">unusually\u2014got good reach and engagement, helping hundreds of people interested in the subject discover that valuable content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The point isn\u2019t the engagement the tweet received; it\u2019s that the article was old. It had been written years earlier by Ahmed Ajmi on \u201cAktob,\u201d the free publishing service that <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">he developed and launched himself. Years later, he decided to shut the site down. Then someone interested in it bought the site and reopened it. By chance, I came across that article, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">read it, liked it, and shared it on my Twitter account. And so, after the article had left this world when the site closed, then returned to it, it\u2019s now getting another boost <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">of readers thanks to a tweet that took a detour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Another experience I had a few months ago came after I published the in-depth guide and comprehensive plan for learning English. Several months later, I was surprised one day when\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u2026the site was suddenly buzzing with an unexpected number of visitors. Traffic spiked, and the statistics climbed sharply. When I checked where the visits were coming from, I found they were coming\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u2026from Twitter. I realized that a well-known Twitter user had shared the page link, and the post had gone viral, bringing in thousands of people within just a few days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">So, sharing links on social networks is a healthy habit\u2014especially when they lead to valuable, useful content, no matter how old it is. Good content\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u2026doesn\u2019t die; it stays around for everyone who finds it to benefit from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">3. Rediscovering Content<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">We can divide the process of producing and publishing digital content into two categories: new content and content that revisits older material. But how does that work? Let me explain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> Here\u2019s an example:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">There are many websites offering royalty-free images that can be used freely without any issues. However, many of these sites are not well known, especially <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">to Arabic-speaking users. They might want images to share with their tweets or stories on Facebook or their blog. To make this easier, several years ago we <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">published a comprehensive report covering most of these sites, as a guide for anyone looking for free images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">We had, in effect, published content that revisited other content\u2014not so much something new as a signpost to what was already available. Abdulaziz Al-Hammadi does the same. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0639\u0628\u0631\u00a0\u062d\u0633\u0627\u0628\u0647\u00a0\u0641\u064a \u062a\u0648\u064a\u062a\u0631 \u0648\u0645\u0648\u0642\u0639\u0647\u00a0\u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062e\u0635\u0635 \u0641\u064a \u0639\u0631\u0636 \u062a\u0637\u0628\u064a\u0642\u0627\u062a \u0648\u0645\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u064a\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0641\u064a\u062f\u0629\u060c \u0643\u0630\u0644\u0643 \u0623\u0642\u0648\u0645 \u0623\u0646\u0627 \u0639\u0628\u0631\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/5-%d8%a3%d8%b4%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d9%81%d9%90%d8%b2%d9%83-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a5%d9%86%d8%b4%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%85%d8%af%d9%88%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a5%d9%90%d8%ad%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%81%d9%8a\/\">Blog<\/a>\u00a0\u0645\u062a\u062e\u0635\u0635\u0629 \u0628\u0639\u0631\u0636 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u0627\u062f\u0631 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u062a\u0648\u0649<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> that help people learn English, along with many other efforts aimed at achieving this goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">There is plenty out there, and the content you\u2019re looking for\u2014or the digital service that meets your needs\u2014is most likely somewhere in this vast digital world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">That\u2019s why we need people to rediscover great content, and lists that point us to specialized resources and services, as well as expertly written posts <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">based on extensive research and hands-on experience, to help us find the best of what\u2019s available amid the enormous mass of digital content and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">4. Good content deserves a worthy home<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Just before writing these lines, I was browsing the pages of Mozn, a website that shares content on advancing nonprofit work through technology. The content was <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">excellent, and so was the template it was presented in. This is one way to honor digital content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The design, layout, images, and other details that create a distinctive user experience (such as the font and line spacing, etc.) help keep content alive and <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">thriving. Readers don\u2019t feel as though they\u2019re reading an article written 5 or 10 years ago. On the other hand, even if the content is new and useful, putting it in a <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">poor layout with disorganized sidebars suggests that it has been neglected and its owner abandoned it long ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">5. Efforts by Tech Giants<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The previous steps were things that ordinary users or digital content creators could do themselves. But major technology companies are also making efforts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Companies like Google, Facebook, and others are working to bring content back to life and make it easier for users to find what they\u2019re looking for when searching or browsing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Google Search continues to evolve, with ongoing improvements to its results. Search is the company\u2019s core asset and the service that launched it and made it well known. Its algorithms, which determine the order of search results, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">are becoming increasingly intelligent, with updates rolling out month after month to ensure that the highest-quality and most relevant content rises to the top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The same is true of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other publishing and social platforms, which are placing greater emphasis on search features and improving them to make it easier <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Users should be able to find what they\u2019re looking for and easily dig up old, \u201cburied\u201d content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\">\u062e\u062a\u0627\u0645\u0627\u064b \u2026<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">If we\u2019re talking about this problem while it\u2019s still 2018, what will things be like in 2028 or 2038? What will happen when the amount of content multiplies <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">many times over and competition intensifies to produce quality content vying for top positions in search results? More solutions will certainly emerge, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">and the human drama and vicious cycle of problems arising and solutions being found will continue until God wills the curtain to fall\u2014and the story to begin again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tech-wd.com\/wd\/2018\/10\/21\/%d8%ae%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%aa%d9%88%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u0647\u0646\u0627\u0644\u0643 \u0645\u0639\u0636\u0644\u0629 \u062d\u0627\u0635\u0644\u0629 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0642\u0645\u064a\u060c \u0639\u0631\u0636\u0646\u0627\u0647\u0627 \u0628\u0634\u064a\u0621 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0641\u0635\u064a\u0644 \u0641\u064a\u00a0\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0633\u0627\u0628\u0642\u0629\u060c \u0648\u0647\u064a \u0623\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062d\u062a\u0648\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0642\u0645\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0646\u062a\u0631\u0646\u062a \u064a\u062a\u0648\u0633\u0639 \u0628\u0634\u0643\u0644 \u0643\u0628\u064a\u0631 \u062c\u062f\u0627\u064b\u060c \u0641\u0642\u062f \u0627\u062e\u062a\u0631\u0639<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[17566,17564,17568,4264,6084,4793,17563,17567,796,17565,1413,54],"class_list":["post-16497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-17566","tag-17564","tag-17568","tag-4264","tag-6084","tag-4793","tag-17563","tag-17567","tag-796","tag-17565","tag-1413","tag-54"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}