Duplicate Content Problem – Shift from Blogspot to WordPress

  • arcadefire

    (@arcadefire)


    17 years, 3 months ago

    Recently got my own WordPress blog and hosting so I just transferred all my posts from my old Blogspot blog to the new WordPress blog. Both blogs now have the exact same content, from post titles to content.

    How should I resolve the problem of duplicate content? Here are a few options I’ve come up with. Do let me know which one works best.

    1. Delete the blogspot blog (it receives decent traffic so I’m not too keen on that)

    2. Delete all content in the posts but leave the post title. Include only a link in each post to the exact same post on the new WordPress blog. (Will this cause the content on the blogspot blog to be deindexed from the search engines?)

    3. Set up a 301 redirect (I don’t think this is possible on Blogspot .. anyone know?)

    4. There’s the option of using Meta Refresh codes on the Blogspot blog but I don’t think this solves the duplicate content problem at all.

    Please help if you can .. thanks!

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  • Thread Starter arcadefire

    (@arcadefire)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    bump! Can anyone please help?

    DianeV

    (@dianev)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    I know zero about how Blogspot works, but I think the 301 redirect would be most elegant; that said, if you had a *lot* of posts, your .htaccess file would be pretty long. And, of course, if Blogspot doesn’t allow .htaccess, that’s no answer.

    If this were me and if I couldn’t 301 redirect, I guess I would go with editing the Blogspot posts down to a snippet, with a huge link that said “We’ve moved … please continue reading at newsite.” Something like that.

    That would, at once, resolve your duplicate content, notifying people that you’ve moved, and get them to your new site.

    This kind of issue is one of the reasons why I’m not keen on recommending hosted-on-someone-else’s-domain blogs. And if you’ve gotten a lot of links to your Blogspot blogs, it will be difficult to get them repointed to your new site.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    17 years, 3 months ago

    What’s the problem you’re having, exactly? If you’re moving to a new blog, then you won’t be using the old one anymore. So who cares about that old content being duped? Add a meta refresh to your old blogspot page to redirect everybody to your new site and be done with it.

    Thread Starter arcadefire

    (@arcadefire)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    The main problem is duplicate content, which is not viewed favorably in the eyes of Google. This prevents a good position in search engine rankings, which is something I can concerned with. I have a LOT of posts on the old blog so this is sorta a big issue I have to deal with.

    Do a google search for ‘duplicate content’ and see what comes up.

    Just found out 301 direct doesn’t work for blogspot so I’m probably going to go with option 2 and gradually delete my old blog..

    deepsblog

    (@deepsblog)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    I have the same issue. Problem Im having is that name.wordpress.com is duplicated by the new hosted blog – name.com so how do visitors to name.wordpress.com get redirected to the new blog?

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