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I can't say for sure, but I would think that, unless done properly with canonical links, it would be seen as duplicate content.

p.s. please don't ask me how to implement canonical links.  I'm familiar with the concept, but not the execution. ;)

I would not republish, I would repurpose. I have done that several times. You can take something from the old post, make it fresh, and link back to it. I got the idea from Problogger.

I think what he means is to take a post that you wrote a few years ago, update the content and then link back to the original post.  For instance, a post I wrote years ago about "simple budget".  I would write a new post on simple budgeting, reflecting new rules, new methods, etc, and then link back to the original post with something like "read more on simple budgeting."

Sustainable PF said:

Hmm, that is unfortunate.  I'd really like to get some of our old (and favourite) articles to our new readers.  When we posted them originally we had maybe 25-50 subscribers and now around 700.  It would be great to have the articles "live" again.

Well, I think that you can use the canonical rel tag to republish articles like that.  There's an option somewhere in the Yoast SEO for Wordpress plugin.  But, like I said, I'm not sure how it works.  Jason at LiveRealNow has been republishing some of his old posts recently, so you might drop him an email and see if he's doing anything or if he's seen any changes since doing so.

I've tried this method, too; as per PT's suggestion and have had success with it.   I've gotten some more comments and attention to a posts that I wrote 2 years ago.

Works really well when you don't have a new post ready. 

I've been considering updating my permalinks to remove the dates. Any good plugin ideas to put in redirects so I don't lose my links?

Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz said:

Wordpress should handle the redirects for you. I've never had any major issues changing permalinks – granted I've never done it on a site with more than a couple dozen posts.

 I don't think it redirects from the old permalink structure to the new permalink structure.

Awesome!  Thanks so much PT.  I did have the date in the URL early but used a plugin to deal with that …

ptmoney said:

Sustainable PF said:

Is there any detriment to re-publishing an article from our early days?

E.G. will we lose page rank on the article?  Will G think it is duplicate content?

I am thinking of just changing the published date and scheduling some older content that many would not have seen.

Thanks!

I do this all the time now. I actually just change the publish date and it sends it to the front page. I, of course, take time to review and improve the content a bit.

I would only do this if you have no dates in your permalinks (URLs), as they will change when you republish. You don't want this. DO NOT change the permalinks. Everything else you can freshen up, but don't touch that URL. That way you don't lose all your back links, and Google never gets confused.

Since the article is now back on your front page with updated info you can resubmit to carnivals and get more socializing. Thus, more backlinks overtime to the one great piece of content.

I actually installed a plugin for SEO awhile back and somehow (I did something in the settings without knowing it ) it started republishing older posts that didn't have much attention.  Took me awhile to figure out what was going on…. I thought someone was playing a joke on me lol.  Eventually I got to the bottom of it.  Luckily I don't have dates in my urls.