Blog Question - Duplicate Content

[Silly Guy]

So I have a blog that up to now has been largely fed with rss feeds.

I've been building links and it has gained in PR status

I assume that i am being se slapped for duplicate content...

I now want to go from rss to all handwritten posts

Question is: do I just stop the feeds and write or also delete the previous rss posts?

[StarkReality]

Duplicate content penalties are not related to the age of duplicate content, so if you already suffer from a penalty or got huge ammounts of DC on your blog, removing it is the safest way...although I'd leave it as it is and start a new blog instead.

Many people tend to spend loads of time fixing sites. If it's a big established site, it's worth the time...but more often forgetting about it, enjoying the traffic that's left, penalty or not, and starting something new works out much better.

Btw, feeds are no problem, you just need to rewrite them. Nothing beats writing all posts yourself, but it's time consuming and can only be done for a few selected sites.

[Silly Guy]

Duplicate content penalties are not related to the age of duplicate content, so if you already suffer from a penalty or got huge ammounts of DC on your blog, removing it is the safest way...although I'd leave it as it is and start a new blog instead.

Many people tend to spend loads of time fixing sites. If it's a big established site, it's worth the time...but more often forgetting about it, enjoying the traffic that's left, penalty or not, and starting something new works out much better.

Btw, feeds are no problem, you just need to rewrite them. Nothing beats writing all posts yourself, but it's time consuming and can only be done for a few selected sites.

thank you very much for the insight!

when rewriting, how much needs to be changed? Is it enough to change the sentence structure and wording a bit for it not to be counted as duplicate content?

[Nicky]

There is no money to be made in blogs

[starpimps]

There is no money to be made in blogs

agreed

[fluffygrrl]

There is no money to be made in blogs

hehe rly ?

[edgeprod]

Check out something along these lines ...

http://www.feedpushers.com

That way, you get a "unique" version of the content, no need to re-write it yourself.

[just a punk]

So I have a blog that up to now has been largely fed with rss feeds.

I've been building links and it has gained in PR status

I assume that i am being se slapped for duplicate content...

I now want to go from rss to all handwritten posts

Question is: do I just stop the feeds and write or also delete the previous rss posts?

I'd suggest you to use morphing feeds provided by various affiliate programs now. These feeds allow each affiliate to have an unique content of the same. Check http://www.thesponsorfeeds.com/ for the links.