Should I delete my old blog now that it has been transfered?

[greenjoe]

I just transfered my free wordpress.com blog to my main business site and I did not know if I should delete my old blog or is it a big issue to have the same content on both sites.  I will be adding to my biz site from now on.

[RyanKent]

The normal best practice would be to 301 redirect your old site to the new one, and delete the old site.

[NoahsDad]

Yelp, go with the 301 redirect.

[AgentsofValue]

I agree Ryan and Noah's Dad. In this case, setting up a 301 redirect from the free wordpress.com blog to your main business site is the best option. This way the old blog and your biz site will no longer compete with one another. This would also positively impact the ability of you main business site  to rank well in the search engines due to the stronger relevancy and popularity signal.

[greenjoe]

My understanding is that since this is a free hosted myblog.wordpress.com site I cannot do a 301 redirect.

[RyanKent]

Please see this link: http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/