Want more blog traffic? More blog readers? Updating your old, most popular posts is a suuuuper easy way to get more blog readers and grow your email list! Click through for my 11-point checklist of how I do it.

Earlier this month, for the first time in my seven years of blogging, my site crashed due to traffic.

I responded the way anybody would. I joy/panic ate a large bowl of guac. I made my husband stand behind me and marvel while I refreshed the ‘509 bandwidth limit exceeded’ page. Then I spent three days emailing back and forth with my website host. (<- insert unimpressed emoji here.)

But the really crazy thing about the post that went viral: it was an old post.

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