Question regarding repurposing an old blog article

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  David Sabot: Question regarding repurposing an old blog article.  ;Let's say I have a blog article we wrote from 2012 that we want to refresh.  ;Would it be best to edit the original article and publish with todays date, or copy the original article, refresh it and publish new.  ;Seems like we would have duplicate content in the 2nd scenario.
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  Danielle Murdoch: I noticed Hacker News did this the other day, they updated an old post with a video and added the note : post updated with new video.  ;Instead of having duplicating the content again. I thought It was a nice way to do it. ;
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  Devin Peterson: I would just add to the article with the new information, clarifying which parts are new/updates. If you want to remove sections maybe consider using strikethroughs or something similar, sometimes I have the outdated section 'hidden' but the user can click a link to show what was removed. Obviously keep the same url, but consider improving meta info.
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  Brian Swanick: I'd go with +Devin Peterson ;on this one, from a UX perspective, I would want to know that it's been updated, so any noticeable note would do (if not, I might bounce with a 2012 date) and from a search perspective, dupe content is better left un-tested.
  
  You could also update it and perhaps use rel=canonical for the new article. I don't like getting too liberal with it tho, personal preference.
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  David Sabot: +Brian Swanick ;Thanks for the insight.  ;My thought was that by refreshing the content and changing the publish date in Wordpress I would force the article to the top of our "recent blog posts" thereby taking a 2-3 year old article and making it new again, with no duplicate content issues.
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  Brian Swanick: Ahhhh, yes. I actually just tested that in WP and it worked just fine. My recent posts updated when I changed the post date.
  
  As long as the date isn't in the URL it will function like mine did. And I don't think it would rewrite the URL in any case--but just letting you know I did not have a date in my URL I tested.
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  David Sabot: +Brian Swanick ;cool thanks for checking.  ;I've read a ton about re purposing blog content, but nobody ever really went through the housekeeping side of doing it.  ;In any event, thanks for chiming in.  ;Hope all is well.
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  Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:22:24 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/question_regarding_repurposing_an_old_blog_article +David Sabot
  
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