Crossposting from WordPress.ORG
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So, I just stumbled upon WordPress.COM, not knowing about it previously.
I got a decent crowd of people reading my WordPress.ORG blog hosted on my own site, and I’d like to crosspost here as well. Can I do that? -
Do a forum search for “Mirror sites”. For some reason we have had a lot of questions about this recently.
Curiosity compels me to ask: why do you want to do that in the first place, instead of staying where you are or moving wholesale?
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No.
The reason people want to post here too is because of our tags pages. It’s a really good way to get traffic. If people start doing this it will dilute the tags pages. Spammers will do it. The tags pages will be ruined – imagine going to a tags page and finding it full of mirrored blogs – not good.
So cross-posting is not allowed and if found the blog here would be removed. Harsh maybe, but necessary to preserve an important part of wordpress.com
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https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=12654&page&replies=13
mark, i don’t quite understand your explanation here because it seems to contradict a little the answer you gave in my thread? is there a difference between tiamatdisciple’s and benjancewicz’s cases?
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I see it that tiamatdisciple had a blog here, moved out and is keeping the one here as a backup.
benjancewicz has a blog elsewhere and wants to cross-post into here.
So the former moved out, the latter has not been here. (I don’t want to pick on benjancewicz – this applies to anyone)But it’s a good point and one that is easily resolved – we just ask people that are using here as a backup to make their blogs private. They still get a very safe backup but they also don’t hook into the tags system. Which I think is fair.
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That’s not only fair, it’s quite smart. It’ll prevent abuse of WP.com as you said, and still serve perfectly as a backup. PLUS it won’t confuse Google and Technorati, which will both put all their juice to the main blog, rather than splitting it between two.
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ah, now i can see the difference clearly. thanks mark. yes, keeping the backup site private is a good idea.
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i’m wondering, do we report to feedback if we see a public mirror site (assuming we know where’s the other site out of wp.com) or just leave it as it is?
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If we see a “mirror” blog then it can’t be “private”. It’s outside the rule Mark indicates above. So I will report ’em if I see ’em and let staff make the call.
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