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Originally Posted by Theresa
I have played around with the import feature on a test WP blog. I am wondering what about the whole duplicate/supplemental content issue if you import your content to your new WP blog.
How does this affect your SEO? Will the search engines see the content on your new site as duplicate?
My blog is relatively new, but has started getting attention from Google. I am nervous about messing that up and want to minimize the ill effects as much as possible.
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Duplicate content on different sites isn't really the big problem. If it was then article directories would be penalized and i don't see that they are. So would news organizations that have UPI and AP stories. Others disagree because no one really knows
what Google does
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real problem is linking between sites with duplicate content and duplicate content on your site...or what Google "thinks" is duplicate content. Blogs can be a problem, or so people think, because of the category, archive, and tag pages.
If you use the seo plug-in
http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/
there are check boxes to no index the archives, tag pages and categories. I think the plug-in does this by default.
I've seen blogs get "moved" and some duplicate all of it and some just start where they left off and modify the old blogs template saying it's an archive and visit the "New Blog" for current content.
Once you stop posing on the old blog it will lose its rankings because it's not getting updated and the new one should take it's place...so I've been told
You could rewrite (reword) the content a bit if you don't have that much making it all "new" content. I know someone who rewords content for article directories a bit when they take it from their blog
I think it's more of a problem with older blogs, more because of the back links , feeds, and traffic than it is for new ones. Remember there are 3 parts to the seo equation:
Content, Keywords, Back links
Content and keywords are two sides of the same coin--they get you found when people search. Back links raises those hits to that first page above the fold spot and if you have more back links than others with "duplicate content" you win, they lose.
-Mike