Concerned about Dup content between old and new website

[wianno168]

I have an 8 year old plastic surgery website with my name in the url. I have just released a new website with a generic local plastic surgery url without my name.

However my google authorship photo is appearing in listings from both sites with different URLs.

So far Google is listing pages from both sites on the same google page result for similar search terms.

However I am concerned that eventually I may be punished for dup content since I am the same author for both pages?

[wianno168]

Thank you

[wianno168]

Thank you

[wianno168]

Thank you

[vivekrathore]

301 redirect the old version to the new one if the actual content on the sites are same.

If only Author name is matching it will not harm.

[kwoolf]

Hi Wianno,

I strongly suggest forwarding the old URL to the new URL at the DNS level (no masking) with 301 redirect. If you can't do that, redirect visitors from your old site to your new site via server side redirects. The goal is here to send all visitors to your new site and concentrate all that link juice to your new domain.

You won't have to worry about duplicate content. Matt Cutts has addressed this issue in numerous videos so you might want to check some of those out.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

How about the actual content on these pages, is it the same or is there a real difference in the content and human can't spot in a couple of seconds, or is the URL the only difference between them?