Taking content off current blog to repost to new micro-site (duplicate content?)

[KevinK3]

so i currently have a website with lots of high quality articles. i wrote a really well written article around a specific keyword. i have now decided to launch a microsite around that specific keyword.

i have enough good content on my current site so i want to take this post and put it on my new site. i can replace the current article on my site with a spun version to keep everything in tact but want the original one on the new site.

is this okay to do in terms of seo or will it be duplicate content?

what i figured is that the crawlers would come to my current site and realize the content is different and nowhere to be found on that page, thus making the content on the new site unique and original. or is stored in some database?

please help.

[John Williamson]

You don't want to delete or change the original. Why not put a spun version on the new site if you want the content so badly?

[KevinK3]

because the current article is written perfectly with the exact wording i want, both title/headline/subheadlines etc. i focus on quality, wording and writing style, not just content that make sense.

plus, its a buried post thats not on the front page and this would be a front page sticky post on the new site because its highly relevant.

if its possible to do this without penalty, id prefer this method which is why im asking. however, i guess if theres going to be a problem doing it, i might just have to bite the bullet and spin it.

[mrfusion]

You could try for each article to do a 301 redirect to the new one, hopefully Google will consider it as a domain move and not treat it as duplicate. Let us know how it goes.

[The Blueprinter]

If you spin your current article very good you can "trick" google, if you don't... It will be duplicate content and your rankings will decrease.

[KevinK3]

it would hurt the rankings of both sites? just the individual post on the new site? or the new site as a whole?

i can't see this potentially hurting the site with the original article, otherwise we could repost competitors articles and hurt them with this duplicate content bs

so even if i delete the original article from my current site, theres going to be a footprint that says this content was originally published on my site (even it no longer exists).

is this duplicate content rule really that true/harmful? if i have a popular excerpt from a story posted on my blog thats also posted on other sites, my site as a whole is going to rank lower?

[paulgl]

It's no big deal.

There is duplicate content all over the place.

No difference than news sites having the same story,
lyric sites having the same song, ezinearticles getting
published, etc.

One will obviously rank over the other one.

Now obviously things have changed slightly, but google
wrote about this a while back:

Let's put this to bed once and for all, folks: There's no such thing as a "duplicate content penalty." At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.

Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

Duplicate content on a site is not grounds for action on that site unless it appears that the intent of the duplicate content is to be deceptive and manipulate search engine results.

1. When we detect duplicate content, such as through variations caused by URL parameters, we group the duplicate URLs into one cluster.
2. We select what we think is the "best" URL to represent the cluster in search results.
3. We then consolidate properties of the URLs in the cluster, such as link popularity, to the representative URL.

One small article hardly qualifies as "substantial."

Paul

[KevinK3]

I actually cloned the entire blog using the WP twin script but then deleted all the posts and put up new content. However, what i realized after reading your post is that I have some pages that are exactly identical (my about, my bio, my contact) and google may be factoring this into the overall duplicate content percentage.I'm not trying to rank the subpages so I don't care but I don't want it to hurt my site as a whole.

So what's the best way around it? Should I just edit my robots.txt file and tell google not to crawl these subpages?

If so, does anybody know the line of code that I need to add?