Removing syndicated duplicate content from website - what steps do I need to take to make sure Google knows?

[KurtBullock]

Hey all,

So I've made the decision to cancel the service that provides my blog with regular content / posts, since it seems that having duplicate content on my site isn't doing me any favors.

So I'm on a Wordpress system - I'll be exporting the posts so I have them for reference, and then deleting the posts. There are like 150 or so -

What steps should I take to ensure that Google learns of the changes I've made? Or do I not need to do anything at all in that department?

Also - I guess I've assumed that the best decision would be to 'remove' the content from my blog. IS that the best way to go? Or should I leave it in place and start adding unique content? (my guess is that I need to remove it...)

Thanks for your help,

Kurt

[TommyTan]

Hi Kurt,

Are thoe syndicated contents on your blog affecting your ranking?  If not, it should be safe to keep them but removing them will be a safe bet in case it hurt you in the future.  Never know when Google will push something new.  However, two "cons" i find from doing that might be losing some link juice if some sites actually linked to those syndicated pages and having fewer pages for Google and search engines to crawl.  However,if you decide to remove them, Great!

Google will do its own thing and crawl your site.  However, if you want to let Google know and ask them to crawl again, you can go to Webmaster tool (www.google.com/webmaster) and use the "FETCH AS GOOGLE" tool.  This will tell Google to crawl your page again.

Hope this helps.