View Full Version : 2 sites- 2 different domain names and cant get one in google
lbarnard
11-17-2007, 01:12 PM
Hi,
I have built and put online 2 websites, these are mostly the same.
Yahoo ranked one <snip> at number 3
Google also indexed this site
When yahoo picked up my second similar <snip> it ranked it at number 3 but acorn marqueehire went down in the 100's.
Google has yet to index marqueehireinkent.co.uk and I think it may have banned/ penalised it for being too similar to acorn which it already had indexed.
If so, how can I get marqueehireinkent to be my main site and indexed by google?
Marcia
11-17-2007, 02:56 PM
these are mostly the sameNone of the engines like duplicates or near_duplicates. Just decide which domain you want to use and 301 redirect the other one to it.
lbarnard
11-18-2007, 06:56 AM
Thank you, I will do that.
However the main site i want to use is the second one, the one which I think may have been alraedy banned for duplicant content of the first.
Will a straight forward redirect of the first website (which is indexed under google) fix the problem that my main site (second) is possible banned and not indexed.
If not how can I fix that aspect?
My Thanks in advance
rburko
11-22-2007, 12:12 PM
As quickly as Google can ban (not index) a site, it can just as easily go the opposite direction and unban/index it.
If you get things fixed up on your end, Google usually comes around and figured out what to do.
It may take a bit of time to have everything sorted out, but rest assured that you'll end up where you want to be.
JohnW
11-22-2007, 12:50 PM
>Will a straight forward redirect of the first website (which is indexed under google) fix the problem
Like Marcia said, a 301 is the type of redirect required. For best results make sure that each page has a 301 to its twin on the other site.
Marcia
11-22-2007, 02:33 PM
>Will a straight forward redirect of the first website (which is indexed under google) fix the problem
Like Marcia said, a 301 is the type of redirect required. For best results make sure that each page has a 301 to its twin on the other site.If it's Apache being used, then I believe mod_rewrite can be used to return 301's for all the corresponding pages. But as far as I know (guess?), it *might* be that they all have to "match" the pattern for the filepaths to correspond specifically if they're existing sites.
Is the file structure the same, and the file names?