Duplicate content - sure if it’s a WORD FOR WORD copy, then it should be banned…other then that, if DC was much of an issue then a couple hundred thousand news sites, article directories and blogs would not be indexed at all; KWIM?

WP does have a bit of a curve, but you can easily take it in steps and not get too overwhelmed.

What software package are you using? I may have an excellent recommendation for you. It’s what I used for quite some time when I first got started, and the only “create a blog” package I currently recommend.

Let me know what you’re using, I may want to take a look also. i have not upgraded to 2.5, nor do I plan too anytime soon.

Grab a “widget ready” WP theme and widgets are super easy.

Correct, “business people” do not take blogspot (or any of the free subdomain style blogs) seriously.

The main argument of all might be, “If he/she is not willing or able to spend 10 bucks a year for a domain and less then 10 per month for hosting, do I really wanna do business with them?”

Talk soon!

Will take your advice re: WP as no. 1 priority. Bit of a learning curve, and am also doing a writing course (plus some writing for some websites, plr)

But have some good software (I hope) that allows you to create blog themes, like website creators do(rapidnichewebsites) - yet to try it, but features are fantastic and have heard nothing but good. (may do some ‘test’ ones first, especially with the upgrade to WP 2.5)

will be great to have the control in WP compared to blogger (even though blogger makes widgets, etc easy - not much flexibility). and all that ‘great’ (hee hee) content gets hidden away so easily.

I don’t think people take blogspots as seriously as WP blogs either, on their own domains. Not sure why.

And yes - thanks - willl certainly do a proper read of older posts before reposting - because I am also doing a rather significant change to the overall ‘theme/content’ of my self help blog - more focused and hopefully more valuable for people!

Enough ramblings!
Will read more of your other articles soon!

Warm Regards
Meg

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I’d put the switch from blogger to WP as #1 on your to-do list…everything else will fall into place after that, as you will have much more flexibility for posts, pages and so forth.

I’ve never put much stock in the whole duplicate content debate for multiple reasons, but you may want to “update” old posts anyway….things change so rapidly that you may find things as you read through them before re-posting.

As for me minding, go for it! I was hoping this would give some the “aha!” moment

Thanks for the info - its a great idea - removing older posts on your blog and giving them new life - otherwise its a waste! I was actually also thinking about this issue tonight - as I have lots of older posts on my self help blog (like you, writing, writing - but no traffic/comments - and they are now hidden away in the archives of blogger).

Many of these posts are actually better than recent posts, but again, NO traffic. So I put some of them as links - as ‘recommended posts’ - and also thought about reposting them, now that I have a few readers - more coming I hope(!) - but then thought about duplicate content issue.

So - what a fantastic idea - I hope you don’t mind, but I think I will do similiar - and remove old posts - and repost them, with slight modifications - this will be especially useful when I move to my own wp blog!

I look forward to reading the posts, as I am a relatively new reader of your blog anyway - but a returning one

THANKS DENNIS

Warm Regards
Meg
Adelaide, South Australia

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