Typepad.com blog migration & duplicate content

[chriscrabtree]

I've migrated a typepad.com blog with a bunch of content (but little traffic) onto a hosted WordPress site under my own domain name (the way I should've done it in the first place).

Now I don't want to confuse Google that the new site is duplicating content from the other site, so would I be better off with:

1) meta-refresh redirecting each typepad.com post to the same post on the new blog, or

2) just killing the typepad.com blog entirely so Google will not find duplicate posts anywhere.

In favor of #2 is the fact that these posts get very little traffic today. I figure I will lose more traffic from duplicate content ranking penalties than from losing the posts themselves in the original blog.

What do you think?

[chriscrabtree]

Thanks, that's helpful. Typepad.com, however, will not let you 301 redirect, which is why I was kind of thinking I should just kill the original blog.

But I will look into the Google Webmaster Tools solution. I was not aware of that.

[KLLC]

Hello,

Please tell me if you were using Google Webmaster Tools for your old Typepad.com blog. If yes that is that solution, use the instructions in Google webmaster tools to moving/migrating your blog from old domain to new. For this you need a simple 301 domain redirect and that will solves the issue. Google will start indexing new domain content and it will convey google that old blog has been migrated to newer one, so you will not have duplicate content errors anymore (Note: it will take some time to google

I hope this will help you to solve your issue..