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Thanks Thomas but this site only uses wordpress for the blog.  The rest of the site is what I'm concerned with right now.

Great! I think I'll give that a whirl.

My new client's original web developer set up many pages with .html extensions.  My plan is to turn most of these into php pages.  Also, I think the .html extension displaying in the browser is just ugly so I want to drop the .html extension from those pages that remain.  I know how to do this with .htaccess, but my question is should I 301 redirect all the .html pages to the page without an extension.  (For example, should I redirect www.example.com/page.html to www.example.com/page)

I don't know how many, in any, links there are out there to these pages, but I'm guessing not many.  I'm sure it's not that big a deal but I was wondering if it would be worth the time to do that for the pages I change.

Thanks a lot Chris, that definitely helped.  Bit of a messy situation, but I'm glad that things should go a lot better once it's all cleaned up.

A new client of mine is using 1and1 hosting from back in the dark ages.  Turns out, her primary domain and her main website (different domain) are exactly the same.  She likes to have the domains names of her books, but her intention is to have it redirect to her main site.  Unfortunately, 1and1's control panel is light years behind cpanel, so when she set up her new domains it just pointed everything to the same directory.

I just want to make sure I don't make this up, so please correct me if I'm wrong about something.  I'm assuming this is a major duplicate content deal, so I plan to create a new directory for each add-on domain.  Since her main site is an add-on itself, I'll have to move all the files into it's new home directory.  Then I'll create an htaccess file for each domain and redirect it to her main site.  Right so far?

My major concern is with the duplicate content.  She's had two sites being exactly the same for years.  Will there be any issues leftover after I set everything up properly?  Is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks for the help guys! I'm fairly new to this community and love the opportunity to learn from the best!