Transferring articles from one blog to another

Hello guys,

I am giving up from one blog and would like to transfer some niche articles to my other blog. What's the right procedure to do that, to avoid a duplicate content?

Thanks!

You can 301 redirect to new URL. But I guess you don't want to do that.

You can set the pages with articles to noindex and wait for them to be de-indexed. You can also use Search Console to speed things up.

Basically, you have to make sure you point old article links to the new address (oldiste.com/article1 -> newsite.com/article1). After, if you're using Webmaster Tools, use their migrate tool and specify the new site.
More about redirect here:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/301-redirects/https://css-tricks.com/snippets/htaccess/301-redirects/
For the WMT, the migration process takes around 6 months (as I remember).

Well, I don't want to use 301, I will even delete the articles on the first blog if needed, I am worried about indexing. That's a good idea to set it as noindex and wait to be unindexed. But, is that accurate, how long does it take to get unindexed? Even then, is it safe to use the old article on new blog?

If I were you, I'd use a totally different approach.

Basically, I would do an SEO profile on my old blog and figure out which of my content actually triggers easy-to-rank keywords.

I would then create new content on those easy-to-rank keywords for my new blog.

In essence, I'm using my old as some sort of research platform to help me get a headstart for my new blog.

Based on my experience, transferring content from one blog to another can be quite risky.

At the very best, you're going to have to wait for quite some time to get the transferred content to rank.

In the worst-case scenario, your transferred content doesn't rank at all.

Following

301 redirect is the best option for you, if you're rebranding.
Else @blackbeans post is what you should follow.

I've done this several times in the past with my various websites. This is what I did, and it worked for me. I don't know if it was the correct way to do it or not, but I didn't get hit by a duplicate content penalty.

1. Before doing anything, make sure you have both your old and new domains set up on your Google Search Console account. This tells Google you own both. Do this even if you have no content yet on your new one.

2. [optional but I did this] For the old domain, go to archive.org and hit the web icon and go to "save page now" and enter the home page of your old domain. This saves it on the Wayback Machine, in case you ever need to prove to anyone that your articles are yours and they existed at that point in time on your old domain.

3. a few days later, move the articles over to your new site. If you subsequently plan to do the 301 redirect shown in next step, you will want to make sure the URL after the domain name will be the same for both e.g. for the article olddomain.com/how-to-whatever then you want the new one to be at newdomain.com/how-to-whatever (NOT newdomain.com/ways-to-do-whatever ). So watch your URL's when you set up on the new domain, you might have to specify your URL in your post editor for each article in the new domain, since your CMS will probably otherwise just default to the article title. Try to move over as many articles as possible in one go, ideally you really want to get this process done in 1 day or at most spread across just a few days, not a longer amount of time. It's up to you how you move the articles over, if you're doing copy/paste or some automated way or whatever. After each batch, unpublish those articles from your old domain. You could just delete from the old, but I prefer unpublish in case you later realize you forgot something.

4. 301 redirect: In the old domain's .htaccess file, set up a rule to redirect all URL's from the old domain to the new one (I'm assuming you're moving all articles over - if it's just a few articles, it's a little bit different). There is a guide at https://www.semrush.com/blog/301-redirect-htaccess/ If you're instead just transferring a few articles over and not all of them, then you can set up individual 301's for just those URL's. The guide I mentioned covers that situation also. No matter what, you'll need to keep around the old domain name for awhile. I actually didn't bother with the 301, although I know I REALLY should have. I probably missed out on a chunk of traffic that way.

5. If you later plan on selling your old domain name (or even if not), at some point after you've moved the articles over and done the 301 redirect, you'll want to save the home page of your new domain name at archive.org. You would want to be able to prove that prior to any sale of the domain name, those articles exist on the new domain. That way if the buyer tries to steal the articles, it's clear to everyone that they are already on your new site. You'll need this evidence in case you ever have to do a DMCA if someone tries to plagiarize those articles.