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    • JasonRae
      JasonRae last edited by

      I had several pages that were in the top five spots on google and the only thing I changed on my site was adding buddypress so I can have a social community.  I checked my campaign and realized I had 560 errors with duplicate content and my rankings dropped down passed 50 spots.  Huge drop.  I am taking buddypress down but does anyone know how to fix the duplicate content issue.

      1. Do I just delete all the pages?

      2. 301 redirect them to home?

      Any help would be amazing.

      Thanks

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      • deltasystems
        deltasystems last edited by

        Why not keep Buddypress, but disallow search-bot traffic to the root directory where it resides? You can easily do that in robots.txt.

        User-agent: *
        Disallow: /buddy-press-directory/
        
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