Client has been COPYING blog posts to wordpress.com for years. Now what?
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Just discovered my client has been copying all her blog posts over to her wordpress.com blog account. So she has duplicate content to what is on her site. She has roughly 700 posts on her main site but doesn't look like that many on the wordpress site.
There are no inbound links coming off the wordpress site that I could find.
Here's an example:
http://thevanillaqueen.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/is-canola-oil-a-healthy-choice/
http://vanilla.com/is-canola-oil-a-healthy-choice/
What are you recommendations for what should be done?
Thanks!
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I agree with deleting the WordPress.com account and if you or the client are worried about losing people just put up a "Sorry, we've moved" post up stating and directing people where to go.
Then delete it!
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I'm actually thinking along the lines of deletion too. Like Jesse said, why not? She has a few followers over there, but she should be directing them to her site anyway. Maybe we should put up a "closed and meet us over there" sign.
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uhhh... i'd delete the wordpress.
why not?
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I would rel canonical it too.
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What about adding a rel canonical tag and going from wordpress to the main domain?
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/duplicate-content
The wordpress blog though is getting its own links that page has another domain linking to it.
Couldn't you just delete it though and redirect traffic? Not sure if you could do a 301 or not..
Adam
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