Citymove.ca
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My blog citymove.wordpress.com is mirrored on my website citymove.ca. I have been told I am not deriving the full SEO benefit from my blog, with this type of set up. Can someone with knowledge of this topic point me in the right direction to resolve the issue?
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Anytime you duplicate content on the web, you end up competing with your self and both locations end up suffering and neither location will have as high of search rank as they could if there is only one location.
What you need to do is to get rid of it at one location or the other. If you choose to keep the one that is with your website, then just make your blog here private at settings > privacy. Within 3-6 months the blog here should drop off the search engine indexes and your blog at your website should start growing in ranking and placement.
If you decide to keep the one here at wordpress.COM, then delete or un-publish all the posts on the blog at your site and then what you can do is to make the “blog” menu item at the top of your website point to your blog here.
In general, as far as search engine benefits go, it is best to have the blog on the same domain name as your main site so that it helps build search engine ranking for your main site. If you want to keep the blog here, this can be done by mapping your blog here to a subdomain of your main site ($12 upgrade per year) so that the blog appears as something like blog.citymove.ca . This would of course be the more costly route. The other two ways do not cost anything.
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And if you want tips on how to do more with your blog, take a look at this support page.
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Thx . I had a quick look at the first option of making the blog private though it doesn’t look as though I would be able to ‘mirror’ it on citymove.ca. There is a provision for ‘Users’ when you go private – would a User be my website?
Also, I think only .com, .net and .org websites can be mapped. With a .ca domain I think I am out of luck with wordpress.com
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Thx V.L With regard to my dilemma, I did want to swap my whole website citymove.ca over to WordPress.ORG at some point though currently I am hoping to avoid the capital cost of the swap while coming up with a stop gap measure to avoid the diluted SEO juice.
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.ca can be mapped, you just have to get staff to set a zone record for you.
It appears that you are pulling the feed from the .COM blog into the site, correct?
I think you are sort of stuck right now with no real solution to the duplicate content issue.
As far as moving the entire site to wordpress self-hosted it would be quite easy. Replicating the look would take more time than moving the content. The stuff on the blog at .COM is just a matter of exporting and importing. You would probably want to buy the site redirect upgrade at wordpress.COM to redirect the traffic the blog there was getting over and to the new site.
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Yes, feed is from wp.com. Is there any way to quantify the issue of duplicate content in terms of SEO? I understand it is an issue, but how much of an issue?
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I don’t know of anyway to quantify it. Perhaps at this point you are just going to have to live with it till you have the time and $$ to get it all transferred over to a wordpress installation.
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