WordPress home page duplicate content issue. Need a resolution to avoid Google smack

Question

My WordPress blog has a single post designated as sticky that will always load when the site.com address is hit.

However, since this is a post it resolves to both "insert-post-name-here" and index.php in my sitemap. For example, the link to "Home" and the link to the "insert-post-name-here" page appear to be two different pages to google, but they load the exact same content.

This creates a potential duplicate content penalty with the Big G

Any suggestions how to work around this?

Answer 1

Maybe Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin, or hard code the sticky content in index.php (or a template file based on index.php) so it's always there.