How to get rid of duplicate pages?

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  informlocal · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 1:35 am

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  I created a static page on my domain http://informlocal.com/ I named it Internet Marketing Agency, now it seems I have a duplicate page. A ghost (home page) with the exact address as my index that I don’t see in the edit pages section.

  I’m using the 2010 theme hosted on a server i pay for.

  I also have duplicate pages due to tag?

  I really want to get rid of duplicate pages, please help
  Blog url: http://informlocal.wordpress.com/

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  kardotim · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 10:35 am

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  You can easily create custom menu items at ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Menus’ in your blog’s dashboard. Please carefully follow the instructions in this guide to learn more about it.

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  informlocal · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 2:29 pm

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  I am not real tech savvy, but I don’t see how creating a custom menu will eliminate my extra home page? Its not like I have two home pages on my top level nav. I can see in my stats that some people visit my home page and others visit my “created static home page”. Both are the exact same url.

  I did eliminate all other extra pages with Yoast – meta robots plug in.

  But I still have the ghost page.
  Please explain it to me like I’m a ten year old, which is sad because I have a good handle on html and css code, but this php drives me bug s**t

  Thanks for the reply anyway!

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  evarlese · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 3:20 pm

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  You’ve reached support for the free blogs hosted at WordPress.com. The site you’ve indicated is running a self-hosted/installed version of WordPress (using the free WordPress.org software).

  To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  WordPress.org has complete support and documentation sites for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress at:
  http://wordpress.org/support/
  http://codex.wordpress.org/

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  informlocal · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 4:13 pm

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  hmm, ok, one quick question, who is my askimet & jetpack registered with? I think it is with .org, if so is that ok?

  Thanks anyway!

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  evarlese · Member · Jan 11, 2012 at 4:23 pm

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  Jetpack connects to your WordPress.com account and you should also have a separate Akismet account, via http://akismet.com/

  Both of these are plugins enabled on your self-hosted/WordPress.org site.

  At WordPress.com, we do provide support for Jetpack. If you have any troubles getting Jetpack set up, just let us know :)

  It can be a bit confusing to remember which account belongs to which site, so if you need any more clarification, please don’t hesitate to ask.