Wordpress Duplicate Content Issue - Help Needed

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by UTOPIA, Feb 20, 2009.

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    Hi Guys and Girls

    I have a couple of old sites which used wordpress as a CMS. They were set up when i was new to wordpress, so I mistakenly created posts instead of pages. To keep a static homepage I set wordpress to display 1 post per page, and changed dates on any new posts so that they were always older than the one i wanted to display as the homepage.

    Obviously I now know I should have created pages and used the static homepage function built into wordpress (hindsight is a wonderful thing :rolleyes: )

    However, what should I do about it now? My main concern is that as the homepage is also a post, there is a duplicate content issue - i.e blogname.com has the same content as blogname.com/firstblogpost

    Before making any changes i want to make sure i get it right this time. I have thought about using one of the options listed below, but am not sure how this will affect the site.

    • Copy the post displayed as the homepage into a new page, set this as the static homepage, and then delete the post?
    • Use a plugin, such as p2pconverter to change the homepage post into a page, and set this as the static homepage?

    I would appreciate your opinions and advice on how i can rectify this problem. The sites rank well for some good keywords so I would be looking for the method which is going to have a minimal impact on SERPs, etc.

    Many Thanks :)
     
    UTOPIA, Feb 20, 2009 IP