Just found a wordpress blog duplicating main website blog - what to do?

[McTaggart]

Hello Mozzers, I am working on a website and found the social media agency, employed by the website owner, was running a parallel wordpress blog which duplicates the content on the main website's blog (200 odd pages of this duplicating wordpress blog are indexed - the duplication is exact other than for non-blog content pages - around 60 category, date pages, homepage, etc.

I am planning to 301 redirect the wordpress blog pages to equivalent pages on website blog, and then 301 redirect the homepage, category and date pages, etc. to the website blog homepage, so all the blog pages redirect to somewhere on main website. _Does this make sense, or should I only worry about redirecting the blog content pages? _

Also, the main website is new and there are redirects coming in to pages from old website already. _Is there anything to be cautious about when redirecting to a main website from multiple old websites? _

Thanks in advance, Luke

[LesleyPaone]

When you say you found it, do you mean on a clients server or a server that you have no control of?

[McTaggart]

Hi Lesley - I was checking duplication issues and then found this blog, which is on wordpress hosting and managed by the social media agency, rather than the client. That said, I should be able to get access.

[benjaminmarcinc]

If you have access to it i would for sure start re writing the content, after republishing the web pages, re submit the site map and the search engines should re-crawl soon. Good luck hope this helps.