Question about Google and Duplicate Content Penalty

[counselorart]

Hi Lynn and everyone,

I've been working hard on my business the last few months, and now a question has arisen:

I've been blogging consistently since 12/2/09 on posterous http://www.elderlyfraudrecoveryhelp.posterous.com. A couple of weeks ago I set up a blogsite with wordpress so I can eventually monetize it http://www.elderlyfraudrecoveryhelp.com. The blog has been getting decent traffic and ranking in the top 5 for some of my keywords on google. The blogsite needs much more work, so I'm not really publicizing it yet. The question is whether or not I should eventually phase out the posterous blog in favor of the wordpress blogsite, and in the meantime, am I getting penalized by google for duplicate content?

I hope I am asking this correctly, and good luck to everyone else in the forum.

Thanks,

Art

[cindybidar]

As I understand it, duplicate content is more of an issue within a single domain than it is across domains. Here's Lynn's (and Google's) explanation: http://www.clicknewz.com/2078/duplicate-web-content-google-penalty-myth/

[Lynn Terry]

Thanks for sharing the link, Cindy :)

I hope that helped - did it answer your question?

When I switched blog platforms, I left the content on my original blog and just began blogging new posts on the new blog. Every now and then I put a new post on the original blog to link to things at my new blog, but for the most part I just left it as-is.

If you have RSS or other subscription options at the original blog, you'll want to update those so that visitors are getting subscribed to the new blog.

[counselorart]

Hi Lynn, Matthew, and Cindy,

Your information was exactly what I needed! Thanks for taking the time to reply.

You know, Lynn, you've got a good thing going here. You and the other members are very helpful, and I really appreciate that. Sometimes working on my internet projects feels very isolated, so it's great to have a community like this.

Keep up the great work,

Art