Duplicate content. Wordpress and Website

[Mike.NW]

Hi All,

Will Google punish me for having duplicate blog posts on my website's blog and wordpress?

Thanks

[WilliamKammer]

Yes, however, implementing canonical tags in the posts on one of the properties will resolve this issue.

Here's a post to help you out with implementation: http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

[dotlineseo]

Yes blog post content should be unique otherwise Google can be penalised.

[KeriMorgret]

It's not a penalty as much as it is Google doesn't want to show searchers lots of identical content in the results, and just won't show what they consider duplicate.

Do you mean that you have a blog on your site, and on wordpress.com? Is there a reason for having both? Perhaps we could help you figure out a better overall solution.

[Mike.NW]

I was just hired at this company about 4 months ago and for years they have been running the blog through wordpress and had about 40k visitors last year. I decided that running the blog on the website would be a great boost for SEO and lead to better conversions.

The site was made from a shopify template and the social media manager hates the layout and stats he obtains. He decided that he would rather go back to wordpress and wants to convert all the posts that he created in shopify to wordpress.

I was not sure if about 20 posts would penalize us on google or not? Also, if we could post to both I would still get the benefits from the blog being on the site and he would get the benefits from having it on wordpress.

Thanks for your help,