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The College Investor said:

You could also just sticky it to the front page.  On the right side, just check sticky, and it will be your first post!  Unsticky when you're done.

I've been doing this thanks to Sam's help.  Seriously didn't know this existed before. 

The downside is that it won't go out to Feedburner subscribers as SPF wants, but I kinda like that.  

You can also redirect via htaccess.  It's like one or two lines of code.  Like Phil, I hired someone to take the dates out for me.  With the code in htaccess you don't have to rely on a plugin.

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.

Yup, I see no reason why this wouldn't be fine.

Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog said:

SPF – Trent from the simple dollar used to have what he called the "time machine" and that was a collection of old articles from the site that newer readers may not have seen – it's basically a round up of your most popular old posts.  Consider that?

Considered it Jeff but I find the click through rates on our round ups aren't overly high.  I don't have issues with re-publishing as far as I can tell so I think I would prefer to get some of those oldies-but-goodies back into active circulation.

FamilyMoneyValues said:

Although I don't re-publish or re-use (or at least haven't yet), I do write posts on the same topic and then link back to the prior one(s).

I have done something similar. I have written about the same topic but just spun it a bit differently.

These are all great ideas. Thought about it, but now I am actually going to do this.

I also started to use a larger font-type for my blog posts 6 months ago.

Now I can take my best old blog posts, increase the font size, add maybe some links to new related posts and update the post, keeping the same permalink (I have no dates in it) but with an updated publishing date. 

Best news of the day.

Andi that is a great idea, I will definitely use that in the future. 

A agree with PT: just change the publish data to make it appear on the front page. If possible, updating the content helps, too. I think it's a great way to 1) Bring back old posts and 2) Give yourself a break from writing if you need it.

BeatingBroke said:

For those of you that do this, do you add a line into the post saying when it was originally posted?  Or do you just repost it and leave it at that?

I've done this just once on Bucksome Boomer and did add an introductory paragraph that did indicate the original publication date and why the post was being republished.  I have taken posts from BB and updated them for posting on my other blog.

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.

I suggest that you either link back to them though new articles or you set them up in a different style and start a newsletter with your old stuff :-D

Growing a newsletter has made a huge difference in my traffic and income in 2011. For example, I don't solely depend on Google to drive traffic to my site. A single newsletter can bring an additional 200-300 visits in a day now ;-D